Summary: If you are anything like the usual aviation enthusiast you’ll have a list of famous names in your head that you can quote at parties to bore your friends like, Wilbur and Orville, Bleriot, Richthofen, Lindbergh, Sikorsky, Whittle, Yeager and such but I wonder if you can place some of the others who deserve recognition.<br> <br> <br> Charlie Taylor<br> <br> <br> <br> Hans Von Ohain<br> <br> <br> <br> Ohain's HeS8 jet engine<br> <br> <br> <br> The He178<br> <br> <br> <br> The He280<br> <br> <br> <br> Gloster E-28<br> <br> <br> <br> Olive-Ann and TravelAir<br> <br> <br> <br> The Staggerwing<br> <br> <br> <br> Doolittle and the Mystery Ship<br> <br> <br> <br> Louise Thaden<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Bessie Coleman<br> <br> <br> <br> Mae Jemison<br> <br> <br> <br> Houdini<br> <br> <br> <br> Colin Defries<br> <br> <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the USAF, the Air Force Research Lab, Embryriddle, RAF/IWM, SDASM, Flugkerl2, BAC, NASA, Museums Victoria,
