Famous Pilots

Here are some who flew over us -- and Jack Nicholson is not one of them!

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Last updated: April 18, 2014

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First submitted	April 18, 2014
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Hint	Answer
First to fly a plane	Orville Wright
Second to fly a plane	Wilbur Wright
Broke the sound barrier	Chuck Yeager
First man in space	Yuri Gagarin
Most famous female pilot	Amelia Earhart
First trans-Atlantic solo flight	Charles Lindbergh
Hollywood star and WWII bomber pilot	James Stewart
US President and WWII fighter pilot	George Bush
"Rocky Mountain High"; "Oh God!" star	John Denver
First American to orbit Earth	John Glenn

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First to fly across the English Channel	Louis Bleriot
Landed a plane safely in the Hudson River	Chesley Sullenberger
Commander of Apollo 13	James Lovell
America's WWI ace	Eddie Rickenbacker
Germany's WWI ace	Manfred von Richtofen
Commander of the first lunar landing	Neil Armstrong
President's son; published 'George' magazine	John F. Kennedy Jr.
Led the first WWII raid over Tokyo	Jimmy Doolittle
Flew the first atomic bomb mission	Paul Tibbets
Eccentric business mogul and filmmaker	Howard Hughes

Wellington

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Apr 19, 2014

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wintergreen

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May 22, 2019

George H. W. Bush served in VT-51 Torpedo Squadron uf US Navy, which used Grumman (or rather General Motors) TBM Avenger torpedo bombers, so he can't be considered to be a fighter pilot