Wolfgang Langewiesche

Wolfgang Langewiesche

male
Air Facts, vanity fair magazine, World War II, American, Aviation pioneer, aviator…Flight Instructor
Wolfgang Langewiesche (Born 1907) aviator, author and journalist, is one of the most quoted authors in aviation writing. His "Stick and Rudder"...
Ann Welch

Ann Welch

female, deceased (2002)
second world war, aviator, obe, gliding, hang gliding, Gliding in England…Flight Instructor
Ann Courtney Welch OBE, nee Edmonds, (20 May, 1917 - 5 December, 2002) was a pilot who received the Gold Air Medal from Fédération Aéronautique Int...
Guy Murchie

Guy Murchie

male, deceased (1997)
Baha'i Faith, Flight Instructor, transcendence, journalist, from Maine, artist
Guy Murchie(Jr.) (1907-1997) son of Ethel A. and Guy Murchie (Sr) was a Chicago Tribune photographer, staff artist and reporter, who had served as...
Richard Douglas Husband

Richard Douglas Husband

male, deceased (2003)
from Texas, Space Program Fatality, American, aviator, space shuttle columbia, space shuttle…Flight Instructor
Richard Douglas Husband was an astronaut and the space shuttle commander of STS-107 ("Columbia") who was killed when the craft disintegrated after...
Helen Richey

Helen Richey

female, deceased (1947)
World War II, from Pennsylvania, aviator, airline pilot, pilot, suicide…Flight Instructor
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...
Thomas Knauff

Thomas Knauff

male
state college, Ridge-and-valley Appalachians, Former world record holder, Soaring Hall of Fame, ridge soaring, Glider Basics from First Flight to Solo…Flight Instructor
Thomas L. Knauff (born 1938) is an American author, glider pilot, flight instructor, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Designated Pilot...
Harold E. Thompson

Harold E. Thompson

male, deceased (2003)
Aviation pioneer, aviator, aircraft, helicopter, American, pentagon…Flight Instructor
Harold E. "Tommy" Thompson (1921-2003) of Hobart, Indiana, was a helicopter aviation pioneer. He was the first man to intentionally loop a...
Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla

female, deceased (2003)
Aerospace engineer, astronaut, engineer, mechanical engineer, Congressional Space Medal of Honor, From Karnal…Flight Engineer, FAA Certified Flight Instructor
Kalpana Chawla (Punjabi:ਕਲਪਨਾ ਚਾਵਲਾ) (7 March 1962 – 1 February 2003), was an Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specia...
Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

male, 52 years old
terrorist, September 11 2001 attack, Al-Qaeda member, anti-Semitic, militant Islamist, Muslim…American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 93, American Airlines Flight 77, United Airlines Flight 175
Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden, most often mentioned as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi militant Islamist and is reported to...
PSA Flight 1771

PSA Flight 1771

male, 57 years old
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 was a commercial flight that crashed near San Luis Obispo, California, on December 7, 1987. All 43 people on...