Statistics for Aviation Pioneers

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First to fly	Wright	97%
First aviator to walk on the Moon	Armstrong	85%
First to fly solo across the Atlantic	Lindbergh	73%
Colorful leading German Ace of WWI	Red Baron	67%
First to break the sound barrier	Yeager	67%
Builder of the Spruce Goose	Hughes	61%
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic	Earhart	59%
First aviator in space	Gagarin	56%
First American to orbit the Earth	Glenn	56%
Builder of the first mass produced helicopter	Sikorsky	56%
Dutch WWI designer of German planes	Fokker	53%
First to fly across the English Channel	Bleriot	52%
Before raiding Tokyo, was the first pilot to fly entirely on instruments	Doolittle	52%
Leading American Ace of WWI	Rickenbacker	35%
Skunk Works founder who built the SR-71 and U-2	Johnson	33%
Builder of the ubiquitous Gooney Bird	Douglas	29%
Austrian researcher into supersonic speed	Mach	27%
Army pilot court martialed for aviation advocacy	Mitchell	27%
First to land on a Navy ship	Ely	21%
French aviator, not a tennis player	Garros	21%
Built a wind tunnel near the base of his Tower	Eiffel	20%
First to die in a plane crash	Selfridge	18%
Top Allied Ace of WWI	Fonck	12%