- Howard Flight
Howard Emerson Flight (born 16 June 1948) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs from 1997 to 2005. He held several Shadow posts: Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury 1999-2001, Shadow Paymaster General to 2002, then Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Flight was educated at Brentwood School, Brentwood, Essex, Magdalene College in Cambridge University, … - Sam Brown
Sam Brown, pseudonym of Adam Culbert, is an American illustrator, father and author most famous for his website, explodingdog. The gimmick of the site is that he draws pictures based on titles that visitors to the site send him via email. He has also written two books of art and short stories, "Wish For Something Better" and "Amazing Rain", based on the art of his website. Most of Sam Brown's art is created in Adobe Photoshop on a Wacom tablet, … - Kazu Kibuishi
Kazu Kibuishi (born 1978 in Tokyo, Japan) is an American graphic novel author and illustrator. He is best known for being the creator and editor of the comic anthology "Flight" and for creating the webcomic Copper. The webcomic artist and noted critic Scott McCloud has said that some of Kazu Kibuishi's work is so beautifully drawn that "it hurts my hands when I look at it". - Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier (born May 26, 1977, San Francisco, CA) is an American cartoonist whose works include the autobiographic webcomic "Smile (A Dental Drama)", which runs at SmileComics.com, a series of self-published mini-comics called "Take-Out", a short story in "Bizarro World" for DC Comics, … - Ralph Eberhart
General Ralph E. "Ed" Eberhart was Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. General Eberhart entered the Air Force in 1968 as a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. His staff experience includes serving as Executive Officer to the Air Force Chief of Staff at Headquarters U.S. Air Force; Deputy Chief of Staff for Inspection, Safety and Security, … - Vera Brosgol
Vera Brosgol (born August 1984 in Russia) is a cartoonist and a graduate in Classical Animation of Sheridan College in Canada. She lives in Portland, Oregon and is best known for her work in the Flight Anthology and her webcomic "Return to Sender". She works for Laika Entertainment House where she does storyboards and concept art for their animation productions. - Jonathan Dove
Jonathan Dove (born July 18, 1959) is a British composer of opera and choral works and theatre, film, orchestral and chamber music. He has arranged a number of operas for English Touring Opera and the City of Birmingham Touring Opera (now Birmingham Opera Company), including in 1990 a famous 18-player two-evening adaptation of Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" for CBTO. He was Artistic Director of the Spitalfields Festival from 2001 to 2006. - Amy Kim Ganter
Amy Kim Ganter (b. 1980 in Binghamton, New York) is the Rising Stars of Manga award-winning author of Tokyopop's "Sorcerers & Secretaries". She won the third-place prize of $1,000 and a trophy for her story "The Hopeless Romantic and the Hapless Girl" in the fourth Rising Stars of Manga contest. She is also the creator of the webcomic "Reman Mythology", a contributor to the "Flight" series of comics anthologies, … - Stratos
Stratos is a character from the popular toy line and cartoon series Masters of the Universe (MOTU). He is a member of the Heroic Warriors. Stratos is the leader of a race of Bird People from the land of Avion, humans with the power of flight and other bird-like abilities. The Bird People are close allies of He-Man and Stratos is one of his most trusted warriors. Besides the power of flight and his aerial acrobatic skills, … - Michel Gagné
Michel Gagné is a Canadian cartoonist. Gagné studied Classical Animation at Sheridan College and worked for Don Bluth Studios for six years, working on such films as "An American Tail", "The Land Before Time", "All Dogs Go to Heaven", "Rock-A-Doodle", and "A Troll in Central Park". While at Bluth's company, Gagné worked on his own short film, "Prelude to Eden", which was nominated for an Annie Award in 1996. - Percy Pilcher
Percy Sinclair Pilcher (January 1866 - 2 October, 1899) was a British inventor and pioneer aviator who, in one of the big "what if" events of history, could well have become the first person to achieve controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight well before the Wright brothers had he not been tragically killed in a glider accident. - Sonny Liew
Sonny Liew is a Malaysian-born comic artist/illustrator based in Singapore. He is best known for his work on Vertigo Comics' "My Faith in Frankie" together with Mike Carey and Marc Hempel, and "Re-gifters" from DC Minx. Other works include the Xeric-winning "Malinky Robot", the Eisner-nominated series "Wonderland" with Tommy Kovac from Slave Labor Graphics and Disney, … - Lark Pien
Lark Pien is an American cartoonist who has created the minicomics "Stories from the Ward", "Mr. Boombha", and "Long Tail Kitty", the last of which won the Friends of Lulu Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent in 2004. Her work has also been showcased in the Flight comic anthology. - Raymond Collishaw
Air Vice-Marshal Raymond Collishaw CBE DSO and Bar DSC DFC Croix de Guerre RAF (22 November 1893 - 28 September 1976) was a Canadian aviator who served in the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and later the Royal Air Force. He was the highest scoring RNAS flying ace and the second highest scoring Canadian pilot of the First World War. As a member of the RAF during the Second World War, he commanded the Desert Air Force in North Africa. - Shaenon K. Garrity
Shaenon K. Garrity (born 4 May 1978) is a webcomics writer and artist, best known as the creator of "Narbonic". She is one of the most prominent cartoonists in the Modern Tales network of commercial webcomic sites and became the site's editor on August 1, 2006. - Bruce Geller
Bruce Geller was an American composer, screenwriter, and television producer. Born in New York City, New York, Geller graduated from Yale University. He pursued a career writing scripts for shows on the DuMont Television Network and others. He also wrote lyrics for musical theatre productions including "Livin' the Life " (1957) and "All in Love" (1961) but his efforts met with only modest success. - Maria Campbell
Maria Campbell is a Métis author, playwright, broadcaster, filmmaker, and Elder. Born in northern Saskatchewan in 1940, Campbell is a fluent speaker of four languages: Cree, Michif, Saulteaux, and English. Her first book was the memoir "Halfbreed" (1973), which continues to be taught in schools across Canada, and which continues to inspire generations of indigenous women and men. - Alvarez Guedes
Guillermo Alvarez Guedes (born in 1926) is a Cuban businessman, writer and comedian. He is better known across Latin America as Alvarez Guedes. Alvarez Guedes is a fervent anti-Castro demonstrator, using every means within his reach to express his political views. During the early 1960s, he was forced into exile at Miami, Florida. He and his brother helped create Gema Records there. - Peter Blythe
Peter Blythe (September 14, 1934-June 27, 2004) was a British character actor, best known as Samuel "Soapy Sam" Ballard on "Rumpole of the Bailey". Blythe, who was born in Yorkshire, studied drama on scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art after serving in the Royal Air Force. He began his professional career as a repertory player with the Living Theatre Company, the Nottingham Playhouse, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, … - Irene Vernon
Irene Vernon was an American actress. Vernon was born Irene Vergauwen in Mishawaka, Indiana. Her career began with small uncredited roles in 40s movies. Vernon ended her movie career in 1952, but during the 1950s, she moved over to television roles. Throughout the early 50s, Vernon guest starred in shows such as Fireside Theatre, The Lone Ranger, Danger, Flight, and The Donna Reed Show. It wasn't until 1964 that Vernon got the best role of her career. - William George Barker
Lieutenant-Colonel William George Barker, VC, DSO and Bar, MC and Two Bars (3 November 1894 - 12 March 1930) was a Canadian First World War fighter ace and Victoria Cross winner. - Linwood G. Dunn
Linwood G. Dunn (December 27, 1904 in Brooklyn, New York - May 20, 1998) was a pioneer of visual special effects in motion pictures and inventor of related technology. Dunn worked on many films and TV shows that have helped to shape and define the history of American pop culture, including the original 1933 "King Kong", "Citizen Kane", and "Star Trek". His film career goes back to 1923, in the days of silent film, … - Aleksey Batalov
Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov is a Russian actor who has been acclaimed for his portrayal of noble and positive characters. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1989. Batalov was born in Vladimir on November 20, 1928 into a theatrical family. His uncle Nikolay Batalov starred in Vsevolod Pudovkin's classic "Mother" (1926). Anna Akhmatova was a family friend, and he painted a well-known portrait of her in 1952. - Seymour Lipton
Seymour Lipton (born 6 November 1903, died 15 December 1986) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the 1950s. He initially trained as a dentist but focused on sculpture from 1932. His early choices of medium changed from wood to lead and then to bronze, and he is best known for his work in metal. - Rex King-Clark
Rex King-Clark, MC was a British Army World War II pilot, racer, photographer, author, and diarist, who once headed the Army Air Corps. He served in the Manchester Regiment from 1934, and flew a Miles Whitney Straight airplane as far as Egypt, Singapore, and Bali. During March 1937, he flew aerial reconnaissance flights of the harbor at Benghazi, Africa, taking photographs which were used by the Royal Air Force during World War II. He also served in Palestine, … - George McElroy
Captain George Edward Henry McElroy MC and Two Bars, DFC and Bar (May 14, 1893 - July 31, 1918) was a leading "scout" pilot of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force during World War I. Born in Dublin, McElroy joined the Royal Irish Regiment in 1914 and was gassed while serving in France. He transferred to the RFC and joined 40 Squadron in 1917, where he benefitted from "tutoring" by Edward Mannock. - David McDowell Brown
David McDowell Brown was a United States Naval Captain and a NASA astronaut. He was killed on his first space flight, when the Space Shuttle "Columbia" (STS-107) disintegrated during orbital reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Brown became an astronaut in 1996, but had not served on a space mission prior to the Columbia disaster. - Dragutin Novak
Dragutin Karlo Novak (Zagreb, February 16 1892. - Zagreb, October 31 1978.), was first person in Croatia to make a heavier-than-air flight. He flew a plane constructed by Slavoljub Eduard Penkala], June 22 1910.. Dragutin Karlo Novak took to flying as first man to do that in Croatia. He had flown in an airplane made by constructor Slavoljub Penkala in 21/22 June 1910. He fled from the military training-field in Crnomerac, Zagreb. - Anita Tsoi
Anita Tsoi is a Russian singer of Korean descent. Her grandparents emigrated from Korea to the Russian Far East, and were later caught up in the 1937 deportation of the "Koryo-saram" to Central Asia. Like her sisters, she began violin lessons at a young age; she later studied piano, flute, and guitar. Her mother was branded a "class enemy" in the 1970s in response to her record of speaking out in support of Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Andrei Sakharov, … - Shondell Alfred
Shondell Alfred (born 1 January 1981) is a professional boxer from Guyana. She is one of the first women's boxing participants from that country. Much like Archie Moore and other boxers of the past, Alfred had managed to keep her age a secret, which is one of the reasons why she is nicknamed "The Mystery Lady". Alfred is a considered by many to be a candidate to become Guyana's first women's boxing world champion. She holds the WIBA Iberian-American Bantamweight title. - Taruho Inagaki
Taruho Inagaki was a Japanese writer. Inagaki was born in Osaka, moved to Akashi in Hyōgo Prefecture while he was in elementary school, and spent much of his childhood in Kōbe. He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin Junior High School. In 1968 he won the first annual Japan Literature Grand Prize for "The Aesthetics of Shōnen'ai" (「少年愛の美学」). Inagaki's works often dealt with themes including flight, astronomical objects, and shōnen'ai. - David Ernest Hornell
David Ernest Hornell, VC (January 26, 1910 - June 24, 1944) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. - Mikhail Pomortsev
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Pomortsev (July 24, 1851 - July 2, 1916, all n.s.) was a Russian scientist and engineer. He worked in the area of lighter than air flight, and weather prediction. - Silver Tree
Silver Tree is a film producer originally from Petaluma, California. She is most known for her independent film "The Aviary". She wrote the story and produced the movie with her husband Abe Levy, freely based upon her own life as a flight attendant. She also designed the sets and the wardrobe. She worked on "The Aviary" as she was furloughed by her airline. Ultimately, she was dismissed in 2005. She has recently completed "One of Our Own", … - Vijay Mallya
Vijay Mallya is an Indian businessman and Rajya Sabha MP. The son of industrialist Vittal Mallya, he is the chairman of the United Breweries Group and Kingfisher Airlines, which draws its name from United Breweries Group's flagship beer brand, Kingfisher. Mallya receives substantial press coverage that focuses on his lavish parties and his yacht, the Indian Empress.<br - Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark, best known as Mary Higgins Clark, (b December 24, 1927 in the Bronx, New York) is an American author of suspense novels currently residing in New York City, New York. Each of her twenty-four suspense novels has been a bestseller in the United States and in various European countries, and all of her novels remain in print as of 2007, with her debut suspense novel, "Where Are The Children", … - Lucie Blackman
Lucie Blackman (1 September 1978 - 1 July 2000) was an English woman who worked as a hostess in Roppongi, Tokyo. She disappeared mysteriously in July 2000. Her dismembered body was found a year later, buried in a shallow grave at a beach in Miura, Kanagawa. She was 21 years old at the time of her body's recovery. Property developer Joji Obara was charged with the drugging, raping, and killing of Blackman, … - Avis Miller
Avis Miller (born November 4, 1945 in Ohio) is an American model. She was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1970 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker. Avis was also known for her status as a "Jet Bunny", a Bunny who served as a flight attendant on Hugh Hefner's personal DC-9 jet airplane, named the "Big Bunny". She served primarily during Hefner's extended tour (alongside Barbi Benton) to Europe and Africa in 1970. - Cameron Stout
Cameron Stout (born 8 March 1971 in Stromness, Orkney) was the winner of "Big Brother 4 UK" in 2003. He received 1.9 million votes, 500,000 more than runner-up Ray Shah. Cameron is the elder brother of television and radio presenter Julyan Sinclair. - Kelly Duncan
Kelly Duncan (later married as Kelly Duncan Moore) was the youngest flight attendant on Air Florida Flight 90 which crashed moments after takeoff during severe cold weather conditions from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (then Washington National Airport) on January 13, 1982. The doomed plane failed to gain altitude, and crashed into 14th Street Bridge and then plunged through a thick layer of ice into the Potomac River, killing 78 persons, …
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