List of known people in aviation

The list of well-known people in aviation contains people who have performed special services in the field of aviation . It is sorted according to the year of birth and death, for the chronological order of aviation-relevant events see Aviation Chronology .

Early aviation pioneers

Aviation pioneers with airplanes

• Abbas ibn Firnas (810–887 / 888), Arab scholar, allegedly flew with a hang-glider from a mountain near Cordoba
• Eilmer von Malmesbury (around 1100), English monk, allegedly glided 200 meters
• Giambattista Danti (1496), Italian mathematician, allegedly flew from a tower near Perugia
• Lâgari Hasan Çelebi (around 1600–1700), Ottoman scholar, allegedly the first manned rocket flight
• Hezarfen Ahmed Çelebi (1609–1640), Ottoman polyhistor, allegedly first glider flight over the Bosporus (approx. 3 kilometers)
• Salomon Idler (1610–1669), German shoemaker, attempted a flight with wings on his arms, fell on a bridge
• Fra Cyprian (1724–1775), monk in the Lechnica monastery and scientist, allegedly constructed a flying machine and attempted to fly with it
• Carl Friedrich Meerwein (1737–1810), author of a book (1784) about flying
• Diego Marín Aguilera (1757–1799), allegedly 360 meters gliding flight with a feathered flying machine, 1783
• Jakob Degen (1760–1848), first controlled free flight
• Albrecht Ludwig Berblinger (1770–1829), the tailor from Ulm
• John Stringfellow (1799–1883), steam-powered triplane at Crystal Palace, London, 1868
• Jean Marie Le Bris (1817–1872), sliding experiments 1856–1868
• Alexander Fjodorowitsch Moshaiski (1825–1890), Russian powered flight pioneer, first powered flight patent in November 1881 , allegedly first powered flight with a steam engine in 1884 2 × 20 HP and 1 × 10 HP
• Octave Chanute (1832–1910), book Progress in flying machines 1894, Fliegerlager 1896 to compare different hang glider constructions, extensive correspondence with all important contemporary aviation pioneers
• Wilhelm Kress (1836–1913), 1877 first free-floating model of a hang-glider , inventor of the control stick , short flight in a motorized seaplane on October 1, 1901 near Vienna, but it was damaged
• Lawrence Hargrave (1850–1915), box kite flight tests 1894
• Hiram Maxim (1840–1916), steam-powered aircraft weighing 3.6 tons from 1894
• Horatio Frederick Phillips (1845–1926), first powered flight in England in 1907 (fifty-decker)
• Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896), 1889 book on bird flight , 1891–1896 successful gliding flights up to 250 meters
• Hugo Junkers (1859–1935), aircraft designer
• Samuel Franklin Cody (1867–1913), aviation pioneer in England from 1907
• Léon Levavasseur (1863–1922), builder of the first aircraft engine in 1902 and the Antoinette in 1909 , which not only Louis Blériot but also he flew now and then.
• E. Lilian Todd (1865–1937), USA 1909, first woman to design an airplane
• August Euler (1868–1957), builder of the first German powered aircraft and graduate of the first officially prescribed, internationally valid pilot's examination
• Theodor Schauenburg (1885–1917), holder of the German pilot's license No. 11 ( Alter Adler ), died in 1917 while attempting to loop with an AEG aircraft
• Gago Coutinho (1869-1959), together with his Portuguese compatriot Sacadura Cabral (1881-1924), he was the first to fly the South Atlantic route from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro in 1922
• Guido Dinelli (1869–?), 1904 glide flights over 590 feet
• Orville Wright (1871–1948) and Wilbur Wright ( Wright brothers ), first fully controllable gliding, then powered flights in 1903 in North Carolina (USA), cooperation in Europe, later aircraft plants in USA
• Jacob Christian Hansen Ellehammer (1871–1946), Danish aviation pioneer 1906
• Louis Blériot (1872–1936) was the first person to fly over the English Channel
• Traian Vuia (1872–1950), Romanian aviation pioneer, flew in 1906
• Karl Jatho (1873–1933), German aviation pioneer, flying school and "Hannoversche Flugzeugwerke"
• Wilhelm Heinrich Focke (1878–1974), German aviation pioneer, flew in 1909 with the "duck" he invented at the end of September 1909 on Bornstedter Feld near Potsdam
• Thérèse Peltier (1873–1926), passenger on the world's first passenger flight and thus the first woman to take off in an airplane
• Alberto Santos Dumont (1873–1932), Brazilian powered aviation pioneer, first public and certified powered flight “Bird of Prey” in 1906 and first flight in a sports powered airplane in 1909 with the “Demoiselle”, which was later copied several times in the USA and Europe
• Gustav Weißkopf (1874–1927), Bavaria / USA, claimed powered flights from 1901
• Thomas Wesley Benoist (1874–1917), flying boat pioneer, founder of the first Saint Petersburg - Tampa airline in 1914
• Marie Marvingt (1875–1963), “flying nurse”, invented medical care from the air
• Harriet Quimby (1875–1912), was the first woman to fly over the English Channel in an airplane
• Hélène Dutrieu (1877–1961), “the falcon girl” member of the Paris Air Force during World War I.
• Alliott Verdon Roe (1877–1958), patent on an aircraft control system
• Richard Pearse (1877-1953), New Zealand aviation pioneer (1903)
• Carl Oskar Ursinus (1878–1952), civil engineer, editor of aviation magazines and one of the fathers of the German gliding movement (Rhönvater)
• Matilde Moisant (1878–1964), second US woman with a pilot's license, friend of Harriet Quimby
• Glenn Curtiss (1878–1930), the first large-scale manufacturer of aircraft
• Henri Dufaux (1879-1980), Swiss aviation pioneer, who with his brother Armand to together tiltrotor invented and a helicopter and the Dufaux 4 and Dufaux 5 was constructed
• Hans Schmid , (1879–1911), Swiss aviation pioneer
• Hans Grade (1879–1946), carried out the first German powered flight on November 2, 1908
• José Luis Sánchez Besa (1879–1955), Chilean flying boat pioneer
• Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881–1957), French aviation pioneer from 1907
• Henri Fabre (1882–1984), builder of the first airplane in 1910, the Fabre Hydravion
• Otto Hermann Fritzsche (1882–1908), designer of the first German naval aircraft
• Thomas E. Selfridge (1882–1908), first casualty from motorized aviation
• Albin Longren (1882–1950), first pilot and aircraft manufacturer in Kansas
• Hubert Latham (1883–1912), aviation pioneer and developer of the Antoinette aircraft series from 1908
• Armand Dufaux (1883–1941), Swiss aircraft designer and aviation pioneer, who flew lengthways over Lake Geneva on August 28, 1910 with the Dufaux 4, designed together with his brother Henri, surpassing Blériot's world record
• Claude Dornier (1884–1969), aircraft designer
• Colin Defries (1884–?), A British man who made the first powered flight in Australia on December 9, 1909
• Robert Thelen (1884–1968), German engineer, old eagle, fighter aircraft designer in World War I and test pilot
• Simon Brunnhuber (1884–1936), 1910 first flight instructor at the first German military aviation school in Döberitz
• Eduard Nittner (1885–1913), Austrian aviation pioneer
• Rudolph William Schroeder (1885–1952), American pilot: 1920 first powered flight at an altitude of over 10,000 m
• Raymonde de Laroche (1882-1919), the first woman in the world that a pilot's license did
• Gunther Plüschow (1886–1931) was the first to fly over the Darwin Cordillera, Cape Horn and the Torres del Paine, among others.
• Peter Supf (1886–1961), aviator and author of poems and non-fiction books about flying
• Melli Beese -Bouthard (1886–1925), first woman to take the pilot's examination in Germany, designer
• Johan Hilgers (1886–1945), first Dutchman to fly in the Netherlands
• John Alexander Douglas McCurdy (1886–1961), Canadian aviation pioneer 1909
• Eugene Burton Ely (1886–1911), first landed and took off on a makeshift aircraft carrier (1910/11)
• Giovanni Battista Caproni (1886–1957), Italian aviation pioneer
• Jorge Chávez (1887–1910), Franco-Peruvian aviator, who in 1910 managed to cross the Alps for the first time
• Ruth Law (1887–1970) was the first woman to fly a loop , thanks to her many improvements in aircraft construction : additional tanks, taxi cards, rubber fuel lines, ...
• Silvio Pettirossi (1887-1916), Paraguayan aerobatics - pilot and founder of the first Aero clubs in Paraguay
• Ernst Heinkel (1888–1958) designed the world's first rocket aircraft and the first jet aircraft
• Roland Garros (1888–1918), inventor of the first real fighter plane
• Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888–1957), best known in 1926 for his flight to the North Pole
• Hermann Köhl (1888–1938), pilot of the first east-west flight over the North Atlantic in the "Bremen" in 1928
• Tryggve Gran (1888–1980), the first motorized plane to cross the North Sea alone (1914)
• Igor Sikorsky (1889–1972), developer of the modern helicopter
• Albert Plesman (1889–1953) is considered the father of Dutch civil aviation through the organization of the ELTA exhibition and the founding of KLM
• Blanche Stuart Scott (1889–1970), first American woman to "take off" alone
• Lucien Bossoutrot (1890–1958), French aviation pioneer, 1934 first commercial flight Dakar-Natal over the South Atlantic
• Freddy van Riemsdijk (1890–1955), first Dutchman with a flight license
• Walter Rieseler (1890–1937), developed sport aircraft and helicopters, on which several patents
• Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (1890–1973), well-known American pilot of the First and Second World Wars
• Oskar Bider (1891–1919), succeeded in crossing the Alps for the first time in 1913
• Gustav Schulze (pilot) (1891–1932) aviation pioneer, constructed his own aircraft in Burg near Magdeburg between 1911 and 1914
• Gerhard Sedlmayr (1891–1952), first German record in continuous flight in 1913
• Katherine Stinson (1891–1977), aerobatic pilot: first female sky writer, first multiple looping of a woman, first owner of a flight school, first night solo flight by a woman
• Manfred von Richthofen (1892–1918), known as "the red baron", was the most successful and best-known pilot of the First World War in terms of the number of officially recognized kills
• Bert Hinkler (1892–1933), first solo flight between England and Australia , first solo flight over the South Atlantic
• Johann Widmer (Giovanni Widmer) (1892–1971), Austrian aviation pioneer
• Dieudonné Costes (1892–1973), French pilot, in 1927 with Joseph Le Brix first non-stop flight over the South Atlantic
• Lawrence Sperry (1892–1923), instrumentation, autopilot
• Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld (1892–1929), initiator of the first east-west flight over the North Atlantic in the "Bremen" in 1928
• Georg Jüterbock (1892–1940), German aviation pioneer, the first so-called air millionaire of the Junkers company, set up numerous flight routes abroad and set several world records
• Bessie Coleman (1892–1926), first African-American female pilot
• Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (1893-1976), American aviator who crossed the Atlantic in June 1927 and carried the passenger Charles A. Levine
• Adolf Schaedler (1893–1983), Swiss aviation pioneer, aircraft designer and pilot, was the first to fly over Jungfrau on May 3, 1918
• Richard Wagner (1893–1935), German seaplane pioneer with several world records
• Gustav Tweer (1893–1916) was the first German dive and loop flier 1893–1916
• Dagoberto Godoy (1893–1960), was the first to fly over the Andes in 1918
• Walter Mittelholzer (1894–1937), photographer, author, first overflight of Kilimanjaro
• Robert Ackermann (1894–1963), Swiss pilot, aviation pioneer, brigadier
• Alexander Lippisch (1894–1976), German aircraft designer, pioneer of tailless planes , rocket planes and high-performance gliders
• Clyde Pangborn (1895–1958), American aviation pioneer, was the first (together with Hugh Harndon ) to cross the Pacific non-stop in 1931 from Misawa in Japan to Wenatchee in Washington
• Georg Wulf (1895–1927), German aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer, founder of Focke-Wulf-Flugzeugbau AG
• Gerhard Fieseler (1896–1987), founder of the Gerhard Fieseler Works
• Marjorie Stinson (1896–1975), first female airmail pilot, sister of Katherine Stinson
• Amelia Earhart (1897–1937), first woman to fly over the Atlantic
• Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (1897–1935), Australian aviation pioneer
• Elsa Andersson (1897–1922), Swedish aviation pioneer
• Arthur Martens (1897–1937), German engineer and gliding pioneer, who set the first hour record in gliding in 1922
• Igo Etrich (1897–1967), flying wing designer
• Maryse Bastié (1898–1952), broke 8 world records
• Willy Messerschmitt (1898–1978), aircraft designer, designed a. a. the legendary Bf 109 and the first jet fighter Me 262
• Maurice Wilson (1898–1934) flew from England to India in an open biplane
• Bernt Balchen (1899–1973) was the first pilot to cross the North and South Poles
• Joseph Le Brix (1899–1931), French pilot, 1927 with Dieudonné Costes first non-stop flight over the South Atlantic
• Thea Rasche (1899–1971), exceptional pilot

Parachute jump pioneers

• André-Jacques Garnerin (1769–1823), first parachutist
• Jeanne Labrosse (1775-1847), first female parachutist in the world (also first solo balloonist)
• Elise Garnerin (approx. 1791–1853), the world's first professional skydiver
• Käthe Paulus (1868-1935), first German female parachutist, inventor of the collapsible parachute (also first German professional balloonist)
• Dolly Shepherd (1886–1983), skydiver
• Hans Seehase (1887–1974) designed and developed a kite parachute, which he tested on April 23, 1923 on the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin.

Pioneers in balloon and airship travel

• Francesco Lana Terzi (1631–1687), inventor of an airship that was never built
• Joseph Michel and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier (1740–1810 and 1745–1799 respectively), inventors of the hot air balloon, the Montgolfière
• Elisabeth Tible , the first woman to mount a Montgolfière and thus the first woman to ever blow up
• Jacques Charles (1746–1823), French physicist and balloonist, developed and drove the first gas balloon
• Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753–1809), first professional balloonist
• Pilâtre de Rozier (1754–1785), the first balloonist, invented the combination of hot air and gas balloons, the Roziere
• Friedrich Wilhelm Jungius (1771–1819), first German balloonist
• Madeleine Sophie Armant (1778–1819), balloonist
• Wilhelmine Reichard (1788–1848) - first German female hot air balloonist
• John Wise (1808–1879), American balloonist, inventor of the ripping track , the first airmail transport
• Henri Giffard (1825–1882), first airship journey 1852 (drive: steam engine)
• Paul Haenlein (1835–1905), developed the first airship with a combustion engine, ascent in 1872
• Georg Baumgarten (1837–1884), from 1878 to 1882 patenting, construction and testing of airships with spring and muscle power propulsion
• Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (1838–1917), probably the best-known Zeppelin airman
• Charles Renard (1847–1905), first airship trip back to the starting point on August 9, 1884 with La France
• David Schwarz (1850–1897), developed the first rigid airship in 1897 (with aluminum shell)
• Friedrich Hermann Wölfert (1850–1897), continued the work of Georg Baumgarten, first use of a gasoline engine (Daimler) in an aircraft
• Eduard Spelterini (1852–1931), Swiss aviation pioneer, 570 balloon flights in 43 years
• Walter Wellman (1858–1934), American airship pioneer
• Arthur Berson (1859–1942), German meteorologist and balloonist, held the world record in altitude as well as the German distance and endurance record for the free balloon
• Hans Groß (1860–1924), German airship pioneer, see Groß-Basenach
• Hans Bartsch von Sigsfeld (1861–1902), developed the dragon balloon and airships with Parseval
• August von Parseval (1861–1942), German airship pioneer
• Hugo Eckener (1868–1954), coined Zeppelin and still holds two FAI world records with the LZ 127
• Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873–1932), Brazilian airship in Paris, first sightseeing flight in an airship in 1899 - another flight was awarded the German Prize in 1901, the first mobile airship in 1903
• Johann Schütte (1873–1940), German airship pioneer, see Schütte-Lanz
• Oskar Erbslöh (1879–1910), German airship pioneer with the Erbslöh , winner of the Gordon Bennett Cup in 1907
• Umberto Nobile (1885–1978), Italian airship pioneer, first pole crossing with an airship in 1926

The flying ladies of the earth around 1914 (with international pilot's license)

Austria-Hungary:

• Božena Lagler ( Grade monoplane, 1st female pilot in Austria)
• Lilly Steinschneider ( Etrich single decker, 2nd pilot in Austria)

France (see also women's flight club "Stella"):

• Baroness de Laroche (Voisin two-decker, 1st woman in the world with a pilot's license)
• Hélène Dutrieu (H. Farman-Zweidecker, aka: Belgium)
• Jane Herveux (Blériot monoplane, also: Jeanne Aline Herveux)
• Marie Marvingt (Antoinette monoplane)
• Jane Pallier (Astra two-decker)
• Marthe Niel (Köchlin monoplane)
• Marie Driancourt (Demoiselle monoplane)
• Carmen Damedoz (Sanchez Besa monoplane)

America:

• Katharina Stinson (Wright two-decker)
• Katharina Wright (Wright two-decker)
• Bernetta Adams Miller (Curtiss two-decker)
• Franke Raisse (Wright two-decker)
• Blanche Scott (Martin two-decker)

England:

• Beauvoir Stocks (Blériot monoplane, also: Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks, 2nd British female pilot)
• Mathilde Moisant (Moisant-Blériot monoplane, aka: USA, 2nd US pilot)
• Harriett Quimby Craig (Moisant-Blériot monoplane, aka: USA, 1st US pilot)
• Winnie Miller (Bréguet two-decker)
• Hewlett (Blériot monoplane, also: Hilda Beatrice Hewlett, 1st British female pilot)
• Julia Clark (Curtiss two-decker, 3rd woman in the world with a pilot's license)

Russia:

• Princess Helene Schakowsky (Blériot monoplane)
• Princess Eugénie Schakowskoy (Wright two-decker)
• Lyuba Golanchikova (1880–1959), Russian pilot's license No. 59 on a Farman two-decker on October 9, 1911. After Lydia Swerewa and Jewdoika Anatra, the third female Russian pilot with a flight license.
• Princess Dolgorowski (Blériot monoplane)

Germany:

• Melli Beese (Rumpler monoplane, 1st German female pilot)
• Baroness Schenk (summer two-decker)
• Charlotte Möhring (Grade monoplane, 2nd German pilot)
• Martha Behrboom (grade monoplane, 3rd German pilot)

Italy:

• Rosina Ferrario (Caproni monoplane, 1st Italian pilot)
• De Plagino (Blériot monoplane, aka: Romania)

Holland:

• Béatrice de Ryk (also: Beatrix de Rijk, 1st Dutch pilot)

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Well-known people in aviation (born after 1900)

• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944), pilot and writer
• Jean Mermoz , (1901–1936), mail aviator and aviation pioneer on the West Africa, South Atlantic and Andes routes
• Maryse Hilsz (1901–1946), including the height record of women in 1936 with 14,300 meters
• Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) was the first motorized pilot to cross the Atlantic alone
• Beryl Markham (1902–1986), Africa's first female professional pilot, was the first to fly alone from London across the Atlantic
• Heinz Rühmann (1902–1994), film actor , learned to fly from Ernst Udet , among others , and did all the aerobatic scenes in Quax, the Bruchpilot (1941) himself
• Amy Johnson -Mollison (1903–1941) was the first woman to fly from England to South America
• Melitta Schiller (1903–1945), engineer at the German Aviation Research Institute  (DVL) Berlin-Adlershof, pilot of the Luft Hansa
• Erich Brammen (1904–1932), first German flight instructor in China
• Koene Dirk Parmentier (1904–1948), won the handicap classification of the MacRobertson air race in 1934 with a Douglas DC-2 for the Dutch KLM
• Ellen Church (1904–1965), pilot, nurse and first female flight attendant
• Howard Hughes (1905–1976), founder of the Hughes Aircraft Factory and speed record holder
• Liesel Bach (1905–1992), aerobatics , German Air Force in World War II
• Jacqueline “Jackie” Cochran (1906–1980), all-rounder, “the fastest woman in the world”, pilot in the US Army Air Force
• Erich Warsitz (1906–1983), test pilot , first flight of a Heinkel He 178 jet aircraft (August 27, 1939) and a Heinkel He 176 liquid rocket aircraft (June 20, 1939)
• Hans Bertram (1906–1993) was a German aviation pioneer who has also published books about his extreme flights
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), first female glider pilot in the USA and co-pilot of Charles Lindbergh
• Marga von Etzdorf (1907–1933), flew in 12 days from Berlin via Moscow to Tokyo
• Margret Fusbahn (1907–2001), altitude record for light aircraft, is the first woman to fly over the Alps
• Elly Beinhorn (1907–2007), first circumnavigation of the world by a woman in 1932
• Hélène Boucher (1908–1934), world speed record over 100 km, “Fastest woman in the world” 1934
• Jean Batten (1909–1982), record pilot (held the long-distance record for London – Australia – New Zealand from 1936 to 1980)
• Luise Hoffmann (1910–1935), stunt pilot, first female flyer for a German aircraft factory
• Therese Elisabetha Schmitt (Röschen Görgen) (1910–1956), stunt pilot
• Heini Dittmar (1911–1960), glider world champion u. -designer, was the first to fly 1000 km / h with a Messerschmitt Me 163
• Hanna Reitsch (1912–1979), first female flight captain, first woman to fly a helicopter , first woman to glide across the Alps, only woman to fly the Me 163 rocket fighter
• Ludwig Hofmann (1912–1979), world record pilot, test pilot of the world's first helicopters and jet fighters
• Felix Kracht (1912–2002), engineer , was the first to fly completely over the Alps in 1937 in a self-designed glider
• Sabiha Gökçen (1913–2001), first major in the world to serve as a fighter pilot in the Turkish Air Force
• Erich Klöckner (1913–2003), test pilot at the German Research Institute for Gliding (DFS), first person to come to the edge of the stratosphere in a glider (1940)
• Hermann Geiger (1914–1966), glacier pilot , rescued more than 600 people from mountain difficulties and founded the Swiss air rescue service
• Nancy Bird-Walton (1915–2009), flew a forerunner of the Air Doctors in Australia
• Jacqueline Auriol (1917–2000), was the first woman to break the sound barrier
• Diana Barnato Walker (1918–2008), first British woman faster than sound
• Beate Uhse (1919–2001), stunt pilot, only female flight double with UFA , captain of the German Air Force in World War II
• Lothar Sieber (1922–1945), test pilot , carried out the first manned rocket launch in history (1945)
• Chuck Yeager (* 1923), pilot of the first supersonic aircraft
• Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock (1925–2014) was the first woman to fly successfully around the world
• Joseph Kittinger (* 1928) has held several world records in balloon flights and skydiving since 1960
• Florence Pancho Barnes (1929–1975), first American stunt pilot
• Dick Rutan (* 1938) and Jeana Yeager (* 1952), first non-stop circumnavigation of the world
• Mike Melvill (* 1940), first pilot who reached space with a private plane ( SpaceShipOne )
• Steve Fossett (1944–2007), first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world in a balloon, numerous FAI records
• Barbara Allen Rainey (1948–1982), first female pilot in the US armed forces
• Richard Branson (born 1950), billionaire , pilot, balloonist and owner of Virgin Air
• Jalil Zandi (1951–2001), flying ace of the First Gulf War and the best F-14 pilot in the world
• Rita Maiburg (1952–1977), German pilot, first female scheduled flight captain in the world
• Klaus Ohlmann (* 1952), 3008 km non-stop cross-country flight in glider flight
• Bertrand Piccard (* 1958), first non-stop circumnavigation of the world in a balloon
• Gérard Guillaumaud (1961–2006), on August 16, 2004, was the first to cross the Atlantic with a diesel-powered aircraft ( DA42 "Twin Star" from Diamond Aircraft )
• Kara Spears Hultgreen (1965–1994), first female fighter pilot in the United States Navy
• Vicky van Meter (1982–2008), allegedly the youngest female pilot in the world

See also

• Important pilots on Wikipedia
• Major balloonists on Wikipedia
• Important aeronauts in Wikipedia
• List of Canadian fighter pilots in World War II

literature

• Horst Lommel: From height reconnaissance to space glider 1935-1945, DFS secret projects , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-02072-6 .
• Horst Lommel: The world's first manned rocket launch , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01862-4 .
• Aerokurier magazine 1/1999: Erich Klöckner's foray into the tropopause , Motor Presse 1999.
• RG Grant: Flying. The history of aviation. Dorling Kindersley 2003 ISBN 3-8310-0474-9 .
• Jutta Rebmann: When a woman blew up. The story of the early female pilots. Goldfinch 2001 ISBN 3-7987-0361-2 .
• Lutz Warsitz: THE FIRST JET PILOT - The Story of German Test Pilot Erich Warsitz. Pen and Sword Books Ltd., Barnsley 2008, ISBN 978-1-84415-818-8 , book info .

Web links

Wiktionary: Flugpionier  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wiktionary: Aviation pioneer  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Aviation Pioneers (English)
• The Early Birds of Aviation (English)
• women-in-aviation.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sabine Deckwerth: Full house in the monument. On: Berliner Zeitung , September 12, 1994, accessed on June 6, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Aéroclub féminin la Stella (French), fr.wikipedia.org.
3. ↑ Amelie Hedwig Boutard-Beese (= Melli Beese) in front of an airplane, 1910/1914 approx., Signature: Image 183-1983-0617-302, Bundesarchiv.de.
4. ↑ A new German pilot, Miss Charlotte Möhring, acquired her pilot's certificate at the Essen airfield., 1912, signature: Bild 183-1985-0509-517, Bundesarchiv.de.
5. ↑ The dream of flying and the nightmare of the airport, Anne Lena Mösken, March 27, 2012, berliner-zeitung.de.
6. ^ Pester Lloyd, January 18, 1914, p. 36, Austrian National Library.
7. ↑ L'Année mondiale illustrée (French), 1914, p. 521, call number: ark: / 12148 / cb326950462 / date, Bibliothèque nationale de France.