Sabiha Gökçen ( 22 March 1913 22 March 2001) was a Turkish aviator.

McCain has experience as a naval aviator and more than two decades in the Senate.

Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (1 July 1872 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor and engineer.

Looking at the three senators running for president, John McCain has military experience, but as an aviator rather than a commander.

Roland Garros ( 6 October 1888 5 October 1918) was an early French aviator and a fighter pilot during World War I.

John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a former U.S. Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut and United States senator.

On August 16, 1950, two weeks after his 20th birthday, Armstrong was informed by letter that he was a fully qualified Naval Aviator.

However, she was not an aviator at that time, and it was only six months later that Sabiha developed a passion for flying.

The name was derived from that of American aviator Charles Lindbergh, because he was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

The producers of the film The Aviator approached him without knowing that he was a pilot and that he knew how to fly a Stearman, the plane used in the film.

Australian aviator Frederick Sidney Cotton's experience with high level and low temperature flying led Cotton in 1917 to develop the revolutionary new Sidcot suit, a flying suit which solved the problem pilots had in keeping warm in the cockpit.