Category:Aviation pioneers
This category contains biographical articles about people who made significant pioneering accomplishments in aviation, either as accomplished aviators, or by contributing in some other substantial and lasting way to the art and science of aviation. This is not limited to the early days of aviation history, and may cover pioneering achievements up to the present. The biographical article should contain references establishing the pioneering achievements.
Subcategories
This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total.
A
- Aerial warfare pioneers (1 C, 57 P)
- Aircraft designers (3 C, 191 P)
- Artificial wings (7 P)
B
- British aviation pioneers (1 C, 29 P)
C
- Octave Chanute (5 P)
- Henri Coandă (6 P)
J
- Jet engine pioneers (22 P)
M
R
S
- Aviation safety pioneers (6 P)
- Alberto Santos-Dumont (1 C, 21 P)
- Spanish aviation pioneers (20 P)
V
- Alfred V. Verville (1 C, 6 P)
- Aurel Vlaicu (5 P)
W
- Women aviation pioneers (35 P)
- Wright brothers (5 C, 76 P)
Y
- Chuck Yeager (6 P)
Pages in category "Aviation pioneers"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 573 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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B
- Vearne C. Babcock
- Mary Bailey (aviator)
- Frederick Walker Baldwin
- Ivy Baldwin
- Jack Baldwin (RAF officer)
- Thomas Scott Baldwin
- Durba Banerjee
- Sir Alexander Bannerman, 11th Baronet
- George Arthur Barnes
- Arthur Barratt
- Princess Basmah Hamzah
- C. Donald Bateman
- Albert Gillis von Baumhauer
- Stanley Yale Beach
- George William Beatty
- Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks
- Louis Béchereau
- Paul W. Beck
- Olive Ann Beech
- Walter Beech
- Amelie Beese
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Lawrence Dale Bell
- Giuseppe Mario Bellanca
- Maurice Bellonte
- Najla Ben Abdallah
- Albrecht Berblinger
- Hart O. Berg
- Cesáreo L. Berisso
- Roger Béteille
- George Valentin Bibescu
- Oskar Bider
- Juan Bielovucic
- Paul Bikle
- Cortlandt F. Bishop
- Lester F. Bishop
- Harold Blackburn
- Norman Blackburn
- Robert Blackburn (aviation pioneer)
- Jean-Pierre Blanchard
- Sophie Blanchard
- Louis Blériot
- Andrew George Board
- William E. Boeing
- Ian Bonham-Carter
- Enea Bossi Sr.
- Dorothy Stokes Bostwick
- George de Bothezat
- Sefton Brancker
- Frederick Brearey
- Henri Brégi
- Louis Charles Breguet
- Väinö Bremer
- Francis Stewart Briggs
- Grigore Brișcu
- Laura Bromwell
- Arthur Whitten Brown
- Mrs Victor Bruce
- Ferdinand Budicki
- Neil Burgess Jr.
- Charles Burnett (RAF officer)
C
- Sacadura Cabral
- Alessandro Cagno
- Frank W. Caldwell
- Reginald Archibald Cammell
- Luis Candelaria
- George Cayley
- Giuseppe Cei
- Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi
- Lagâri Hasan Çelebi
- Ahmet Ali Çelikten
- Clyde Cessna
- Octave Chanute
- Jagmal Raja Chauhan
- Arthur Chin
- Josef Christiaens
- Ellen Church
- Edith Clark
- Julia Clark
- Henri Coandă
- Tim Cole (balloonist)
- Bessie Coleman
- George Cyril Colmore
- Maria Josep Colomer i Luque
- Carmela Combe
- Harry B. Combs
- Alfred Comte
- Jean Louis Conneau
- Paul Cornu
- Dieudonné Costes
- Gago Coutinho
- René Couzinet
- Carl Cover
- Ralph W. Cram
- Carl G. Cromwell
- Leon D. Cuddeback
- Glenn Curtiss
D
- Giacomo D'Angelis
- Jean Dabry
- John Damian
- Melody Millicent Danquah
- A. Porter Davis
- Doug Davis (aviator)
- Colin Defries
- Carlo Del Prete
- Léon Delagrange
- Mortimer Delano
- Franz-Zeno Diemer
- Cromwell Dixon
- Glidden Doman
- Hans Dons
- Hermann Dorner
- Donald Wills Douglas Sr.
- John Armstrong Drexel
- Marie-Louise Driancourt
- Winifred Drinkwater
- Camille du Gast
- Armand Dufaux
- Maxine Dunlap Bennett
- J. W. Dunne
E
F
- Henri Fabre
- Ernest Failloubaz
- Tony Fairbrother
- Luis Farell
- Clyde Fenton
- Charles Fern
- Arturo Ferrarin
- Rosina Ferrario
- Jacob Earl Fickel
- Abbas ibn Firnas
- First aerial crossing of the South Atlantic
- Farnum Fish
- James Fitzmaurice
- Rudolf Fizir
- Reuben H. Fleet
- Anton Flettner
- Furlong Flynn
- Anthony Fokker
- Steve Fossett
- Harlan D. Fowler
- Mathilde Franck
- Ramón Franco
- Leslie Frise
- Edward Purkis Frost
- Jack Frye
- Feng Ru
- Wally Funk
G
- Edson Fessenden Gallaudet
- André-Jacques Garnerin
- Harold Gatty
- Giulio Gavotti
- Patrick de Gayardon
- Viola Gentry
- Arthur Edward George
- Gerrit Johannes Geysendorffer
- Julie Ann Gibson
- Heriberto Gil Martínez
- Oscar Gnosspelius
- Sabiha Gökçen
- Bedriye Tahir Gökmen
- Cecil Grace
- Hans Grade
- Einar Lilloe Gran
- Tryggve Gran
- René Grandjean
- William Greene (aviator)
- Wolfgang von Gronau
- Hans Georg Friedrich Groß
- Doris Grove
- Paolo Guidotti
Media in category "Aviation pioneers"
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