- Glenn Tilton
Glenn Tilton (born April 1948 in Washington, DC) is the Chairman, President, and CEO of UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines. He has held this role since September 2002, 3 months before UAL Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. He came to UAL from ChevronTexaco, where he was working since 1970. Glenn Tilton originally was going to follow his father's footsteps and join the government. - Mark Bingham
Mark Kendall Bingham (May 22, 1970 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA– September 11, 2001 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, USA) was an American public relations executive who founded his own company, the Bingham Group. He died at age 31 in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on board United Airlines Flight 93. - Marvin Bush
Marvin Pierce Bush (born October 22, 1956) is the youngest son of George H. W. Bush and Barbara Pierce, and brother of George W., John (Jeb), Neil and Dorothy. He is named for his maternal grandfather. He and wife Margaret have two adopted children from the Gladney Center in Ft. Worth, Texas: a daughter, Marshall, and a son, Walker. - Adam Smith
Adam Smith was born on June 15, 1965 and his lived his entire life in the Ninth District. He grew up in the SeaTac area of South King County and graduated from Tyee High School in 1983. Adam's father, Ben, worked as a baggage handler at SeaTac airport and was active in the local Machinists' Union. He taught Adam the value of community involvement, public service, and participating in our democracy. - Richard Ben-Veniste
Richard Ben-Veniste (born January 3, 1943), a member of the 9/11 Commission, is known for his pointed questions and criticisms of members of both the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Ben-Veniste graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City in 1960, received an A.B. from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1964, an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in New York City in 1967, and an LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law in Evanston, … - Ellen Church
Ellen Church (September 22, 1904 - August 22, 1965) was the first airline stewardess (flight attendant). - Montie Brewer
Monte R. Brewer is the President and CEO of Air Canada. He joined Air Canada in 2002 and was appointed President and CEO in 2004. Previous to Air Canada, he worked at United Airlines. He received a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Michigan State University. - Wirt Walker
Wirt Dexter Walker III (born ca. 1940) is an American businessman. Wirt D. Walker III was the Chairman, President, and CEO of Aviation General, Inc., 2000-2006, a holding company for two subsidiaries: Commander Aircraft Company, (single engine Commander aircraft manufacturer, plus consulting, brokerage and refurbishment services for piston aircraft), and Strategic Jet Services, Inc.(which ceased operations in 12/02), and at the time provided consulting, … - Rono Dutta
Rono Dutta is the former President of United Airlines. He is currently the Chairman of Air Sahara. - Abdul Hakim Murad
Abdul Hakim Ali Hashim Murad born January 4, 1968) was an alleged conspirator in the Operation Bojinka planned mujahid attacks. He used the alias Ahmed Saeed when Manila police apprehended him. He was mentioned on Ramzi Yousef's laptop personal computer as Obaid. He was the Pakistani-born son of a crane operator working for a petroleum company in Kuwait. He graduated from a high school in Al-Jery, Kuwait. - Helmut Jahn
Helmut Jahn (b. January 4, 1940) is a German-American architect, designer of dozens of major buildings throughout the world. Some of the better known among his creations are the US$800 Million Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, the Messeturm in Frankfurt and the One Liberty Place, the tallest building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jahn was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1940. - Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson "is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute . He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time Magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin : An American Life (2003) and of Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). His biography of Albert Einstein - Einstein: His Life and Universe - was released in April 2007. "Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952, in New Orleans. - Walter Varney
Walter Thomas Varney (born December 26, 1888 in San Francisco, California - died January 25, 1967 in Santa Barbara, California) was an American aviation pioneer who founded forerunners of two major U.S. airlines, United Airlines and Continental Airlines. Varney was also one of the most prominent airmail contractors of the early 20th Century. Varney served as a pilot in the Aviation Section, … - Meryl Getline
Meryl Jan Getline (born June 1953) is an American pilot, author, and columnist. - Gore Verbinski
Gregor Verbinski (b. March 16, 1964), is an American film director and writer. - Susan Grant
Susan Grant is a pilot and author, dubbed the "inventor of aviation romance," by "Romantic Times Magazine". Grant graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1982, the third class to include women, and was commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force. She went on to pilot training at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas. After graduating, she stayed on as a flight instructor. She later took an assignment at Mather Air Force Base, California, … - Barrington Irving
Barrington Irving, Jr. (b. in Jamaica) is an aerospace student at Florida Memorial University, and reportedly the youngest person and first black person and first Jamaican American to pilot a plane around the world solo. Irving was born in Jamaica, and grew up in the Miami, Florida area. Irving started his journey on March 23 2007 in the Opa-locka Airport located near Miami, planning to complete the trip in 41 days. His airplane, a Columbia 400, is named the "Inspiration", … - William A. Patterson
William A. "Pat" Patterson (October 1899 - 1980) was the president of United Airlines from 1934 until 1966. Patterson was born on a sugar plantation on Oahu, Hawaii. When Patterson was 13, his widowed mother moved to San Francisco, California, while he remained at Honolulu Military Academy. Not liking the academy, he decided to leave. He persuaded a captain to allow him to work on his ship in exchange for passage to San Francisco. - Kate Linder
Kate Linder (born November 2, 1947) is an American actress, best known for her role as Esther Valentine on "The Young and the Restless", which she has played since 1985. Linder graduated with a BA in theatre arts from San Francisco State University. After graduation, Linder found work on television, including roles on "Archie Bunker's Place" and "Bay City Blues". She also appeared in the film "Rocky III". - Philip G. Johnson
Philip G. Johnson (November 5, 1894-September 14, 1944) was an American executive, president of Boeing. Trained as an engineer, Johnson started working for Boeing in 1917. He was named president in 1926. Afterwards, he headed United Airlines and, later, its whole aeronautical conglomerate, United Aircraft and Transport Corporation. In the aftermath of the Air Mail Scandal of 1934, he was officially banned from the industry for several years, … - Dipak C. Jain
Dipak C. Jain is dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. A marketing expert trained in mathematics and statistics, Jain assumed leadership of the school in 2001, after serving for five years as the school's associate dean for academic affairs working with Dean Donald P. Jacobs. More information can be found at Dipak C. Jain's faculty Web page. Dean Jain was born on June 9, 1957 in a small town called Tezpur, Assam, a northeast state of India. - Richard McCoy Jr.
Richard McCoy, Jr. was a convicted hijacker. On April 7, 1972, four months after D. B. Cooper's hijacking, McCoy boarded United Flight 855 during a stopover in Denver. It was a Boeing 727 with aft stairs, the same type used in the Cooper incident, which McCoy used to escape after giving the crew the same type of instructions as Dan Cooper. McCoy was carrying a novelty grenade and an empty pistol. He left his fingerprints on a magazine he read on the plane. - Alfred C. Haynes
Alfred C. "Al" Haynes (born 1932 in Dallas, Texas) is a former airline pilot and a regular guest speaker at social events. Haynes gained international fame in 1989, when he, together with Dennis E. Fitch, a United DC-10 flight instructor who was a passenger on the flight, limited the loss of lives by crash-landing United Airlines Flight 232, a damaged DC-10 jetliner, at Sioux City Airport. - Dennis E. Fitch
Dennis E. (Denny) Fitch (born 1943) was the off-duty DC-10 training captain who helped captain Al Haynes minimize loss of life on United Airlines Flight 232 when all flight controls were lost, on July 19 1989. Fitch used differential throttle adjustment to steer the airliner to an oblique crash-landing at Sioux Gateway Airport, in Sioux City, Iowa, resulting in the survival of 185 out of 296 on-board. - Elrey Borge Jeppesen
Elrey Borge Jeppesen (January 28, 1907 - November 26, 1996) was an aviation pioneer. He developed manuals and charts that allowed pilots worldwide to fly safely. He started in aviation by buying a Jenny and then an Alexander Eaglerock, and joined Tex Rankin's Flying Circus in Portland, Oregon. He went to Dallas and worked for Fairchild Aerial Surveys, photographing the Mississippi Delta surrounding New Orleans. In 1930, he went to work for Varney in Portland, … - Helen Richey
Helen Richey was a pioneering female aviator and the first woman to be hired as a pilot by a commercial airline in the United States. Richey was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Her father, Joseph B. Richey, was superintendent of schools in McKeesport from 1902 to 1935. During her teens, Richey was one of the few girls in McKeesport who wore pants. She learned how to fly a plane at age 20. Her father bought her a plane when she obtained her pilot's license. - Howard Putnam
Howard Putnam is the former CEO of the highly successful Southwest Airlines headquartered in Dallas, TX. He believes that developing a culture that places "people and integrity" as their #1 priority pays big dividends for all stakeholders. Howard was later recruited to be the CEO and Chairman of financially failing Braniff International. He was the 1st CEOt to successfully restructure a major airline into, through and out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. - Edward Carlson
Edward Carlson (June 4, 1911 - April 3, 1990), was a successful businessman, and Seattle civic leader. Carlson was born in Tacoma, Washington from humble beginnings and helped his single mother make ends meet as a child by working as an attendant at a gas station as well as other odd jobs. Carlson entered the University of Washington and began his hotel career as a pageboy then elevator operator while he was a student. - Terri Welles
Terri Welles (born Terri Knepper November 21, 1956 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actress and adult model. Welles first appeared on the cover of the May 1980 issue of "Playboy", wearing a flight attendant costume to illustrate a pictorial on stewardesses (Welles was a United Airlines stewardess at the time). She subsequently appeared as a centerfold in the December 1980 issue and was named Playmate of the Year for 1981. - Robert Sampson
Robert Sampson (1925-2006) was a vice president at United Airlines. He was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at age 5, and used a wheelchair for most of his life. Sampson, a lawyer, was an advocate for disabled persons. He served the President's Commission on Employment of the Handicapped under five American presidents. His efforts helped lead to architectural improvements in access for the disabled, such as wheelchair ramps. - Harris Black
Harris Black is a convicted fraudster from Canada. - Bilal Musharraf
Bilal Musharraf is the son of Sehba and Pervez Musharraf, who are the First Lady and President of Pakistan, respectively. Bilal is married with two children, as is his only sibling, his sister Ayla. In 2005, he visited India with his octogenarian grandmother; the visit attracted considerable media attention. In March 2005, the family was held up at a San Francisco, … - Arturo Kinch
Arturo Kinch (born 15 April 1956) is a customer service representative for United Airlines who has won fame for his inspiring performances as Costa Rica's only skiier in Winter Olympic Games history, most recently as a 49-year-old cross-country skiier in the 2006 XX Olympic Winter Games. Born the seventh child in a family that would grow to a total of thirteen and the son of missionary parents in Costa Rica, … - Ray Kuhlman
Joseph Raymond "Ray" Kuhlman (born ca. 1919 in Frostburg, Maryland - died October 15, 2003 in Kinston, North Carolina) was a pilot, businessman, and minor league baseball owner. Ray joined the military prior to World War II and graduated from a new program as a Flying Sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps in December 1941. - Robert S. Smith
Robert Sherlock Smith is an Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Smith was born in New York City in 1944, and grew up in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He graduated from Stanford University and, in 1968 from Columbia Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the law review. From 1968 to 2003 he practiced law in New York City with the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, … - Ramón Luis Rivera
Ramón Luis Rivera is a Puerto Rican politician affiliated with the New Progressive Party. He was Mayor of Bayamón from 1977 until 2000. He is considered by many, public and political critics alike, to be one of Puerto Rico's greatest mayors in history, as well as Bayamon's greatest. Rivera became mayor in 1976, defeating incumbent Manuel Aponte Borrero. His main concerns towards Bayamon were in the tourism and business industries. - Sarah Deal
Major Sarah Deal Burrow, United States Marine Corps, in 1993 became the first female Marine selected for Naval aviation training, and subsequently the Marine Corps' first female aviator. Deal earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace flight technology from Kent State University in 1992. She was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in May 1992. Though she had already earned her pilot's license while in college, … - Hubert Webb
Hubert Webb was the prime suspect and one of the killers in the Vizconde Massacre. He is the son of former Senator Freddie Webb, better known as the ex-basketball player. The fourth child in the brood, he was put behind bars, first as a suspect at the Parañaque City Jail in August 1995, and as a convict at the New Bilibid Prisons five years later. As a suspect in the crime, Hubert claims he was in the United States on June 30, 1991, … - Jean Jani
Jean Jani (born October 31, 1931 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American model. She was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the July 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Gowland. Jani was presented as a flight attendant in her "Playboy" pictorial, but in actuality she was a reservations clerk with United Airlines when she was discovered. - Frank Gari
Frank Gari (born Frank Daniel Garofalo in New York City on April 1, 1942) is a popular singer and songwriter from the late 1950s and early 1960s. His best known songs where he was a performer are "Princess", "Utopia" and "Lullaby Of Love". He co-wrote with Roger McGuinn the song "Beach Ball" for Bobby Darin. Gari and McGuinn appeared on the 1963 record billed as the City Surfers.
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