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Events with high posterior probability

Marie Marvingt	In September 1909, Marie Marvingt experienced her first flight as a passenger in an aeroplane piloted by Roger Sommer.
Graham Gilmour	His Bleriot did not fair so well, it was delivered from Paris to Pau but was damaged on the railway journey, it was repaired by Bleriot and test flown by Leblane but the next day the hangar blow down, it was not until 9 March 1910 that Gilmour sat in his own aircraft.
C. D. Barnard	In June 1932, Barnard purchased the Fokker F. VIIa (G-EBTS) from the Duchess of Bedford.
Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais	He quickly became a well known pilot, appearing at the Aude) aviation meeting in February 1912.
Robert Kronfeld	In 1939 he became a British citizen Post war, as Chief Test Pilot for General Aircraft, he was killed in the crash of an experimental flying wing glider - the General Aircraft GAL 56 ('' TS507'') - during stalling trials, at Lower Froyle after taking-off from Lasham Airfield.
Vasily Dzhugashvili	However, he was dismissed as a result of an aviation incident during a military parade on July 27, 1952 (Vasily insisted on letting the planes fly in bad weather, leading to one Tupolev Tu-4 bomber crashing).
Lincoln J. Beachey	In 1912, Beachey, Parmelee, and aviation pioneer Glenn Martin performed the first night flights in California with acetylene burners, fuses, and small noise making bombs dropped over Los Angeles.
Archie League	He had barnstormed around in Missouri and Illinois with his'' flying circus,'' prior to St. Louis hiring him as the first U. S. air traffic controller in 1929.
Lou Everett	He continued testing the Vertiplane and began testing (a maiden flight : May 23, 1961 ; Flight magazine) the Flex-Wing ; a Rogallo-wing aircraft which evolved into the XV-8 Fleep.
?tienne Oehmichen	His first successful flight with a helicopter took place on 18 February 1921.
Wiley Post	In 1935 Post became interested in surveying a mail-and-passenger air route from the West Coast of the United States to Russia.
Evan Farmer	Farmer is a licensed pilot and, in 2008, built his own single engine plane in only 11 days and flew it solo across country in another 9 days, setting a yet-to-be verified world record.
Erich Warsitz	In 1942, during a test flight with a Messerschmitt Bf 109, he had an accident -- caused by a faulty fuel lead -- which put him out of flying for a year.
Wernher von Braun	In June 1937, at Neuhardenberg (a large field about east of Berlin, listed as a reserve airfield in the event of war), one of these latter aircraft was flown with its piston engine shut down during flight by test pilot Erich Warsitz, at which time it was propelled by von Braun's rocket power alone.
Charles Kingsford Smith	Applying for a commercial pilot's licence on 2 June 1921 (in which he gave his name as' Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith'), he became one of Australia's first airline pilots when he was chosen by Norman Brearley to fly for the newly formed West Australian Airways.
Steve McKinney (skier)	In 1973, on a whim, he took a flight to Milan, Italy, and then hitchhiked to Cervinia to watch speed skiing on the Kilometro Lanciato (' flying kilometer').
Ferdinand Ferber	Ferber then built his fifth aircraft, based on photographs of the Wright's 1901 glider.
Roger Smith (actor)	com, Smith was a Private Pilot with an instrument rating issued November 30, 1966.
C. D. Barnard	In 1931, he formed C. D. Barnard Air Tours Ltd.
Amelia Earhart	Paul Mantz, Amelia Earhart, Harry Manning and -LSB- -LSB- Fred Noonan, Oakland, California, March 17, 1937 -RSB- -RSB- On St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1937, Earhart and her crew flew the first leg from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii.
Noel Pemberton Billing	In 1913 he bet Frederick Handley Page that he could earn his pilot's licence within 24 hours of first sitting in an aircraft.
Oscar Randolph Fladmark, Jr.	In 1954, Captain Oscar R. Fladmark, Jr. was given an award for exceeding the speed of sound in a North American F-86 Sabre fighter jet.
Joseph Mauborgne	While stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1912, he installed a radio transmitter in an airplane and had 1st Lt. Henry H. Arnold send him the first successful air to ground radio transmission on November 2.
Prince George, Duke of Kent	It became his passion, and in 1929 the Duke earned his pilot's license.
Dick Merrill	He would officially retire from Eastern Air Lines on October 3, 1961 after flying a Douglas DC-8 from New York to Miami.
John Kenworthy	In his early years he was a design assistant at the Royal Aircraft Factory formed out of the HM Balloon factory in 1911 at Farnborough, Hampshire.
Manuel J. Fernandez	Pete was chosen in 1957 to try out for Test Pilot School at Nellis Air Force Base, though with just a high school degree, he was underqualified and clearly getting a break due to his war record.
Ann Pellegreno	Koepke owned a twin-engine Lockheed Electra 10A that he was restoring at the time, a sistership to that flown by Amelia Earhart on her fateful world flight in 1937.
Robert Kronfeld	On 20 June 1931 Kronfeld was the first pilot to fly a glider across the English Channel, making a return flight the same day.
James Fitzmaurice (pilot)	In May 1919, he was selected to undertake the first night mail flight (Folkestone to Boulogne).
Amelia Earhart	Earhart had her first lessons, beginning on January 3, 1921, at Kinner Field, near Long Beach.
Jeffrey Quill	Jeffrey Quill's long association with the Spitfire began when, aged 23, he made his first flight in the prototype fighter K5054 on 26 March 1936 -- Mutt Summers having made the maiden flight three weeks earlier -- and his priority was to get the Spitfire cleared for acceptance by the RAF.
Marie Marvingt	On 26 October 1909 Marvingt became the first woman to pilot a balloon across the North Sea and English Channel from Europe to England.
Alliott Verdon Roe	He then began to build a series of flying models, and won a Daily Mail competition with a prize of # 75 for one of his designs in 1907.
Polly Vacher	On 21 May 2007 she set off from Birmingham International Airport on her Wings Around Britain Challenge in which she landed at all the airfields in the Jeppesen VFR Manual, between 21 May and 31 July 2007.
Bernt Balchen	On 28 -- 29 November 1929, flying a modified Ford 4-AT Trimotor, Balchen became one of the first four men to fly over the South Pole.
Ernest Archdeacon	His most lasting contribution to aviation is the Aéro-Club de France, the oldest aero-club in the world, which he co-founded in 1898.
Diana Barnato Walker	In early 1941 she applied to become one of the first women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) and successfully took her initial assessment flying test at their headquarters at White Waltham, Berkshire, on 9 March 1941 with the ATA's Chief Flying Instructor, A. R. O. Macmillan, in the Tiger Moth's rear seat.
C. D. Barnard	In October 1930, Barnard planned to join Charles Kingsford Smith on a record breaking flight to Australia, but Kingsford Smith made it a solo flight.
Bill Bridgeman	Bridgeman converted to jet aircraft on the F-80 in early 1950 and eventually conducted a very successful test program with the Skyrocket, collecting data on the behavior of swept-wing aircraft over a wide envelope of load factors and Mach number s deep in the supersonic range.
Bruce McCandless II	During the first of his two Space Shuttle missions he made the first ever untethered free flight using the Manned Maneuvering Unit in 1984.
Jacques Schneider	On 5 December 1912, at the Aéroclub de France he proposed an annual contest for seaplane s, the'' Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider'' (Schneider Trophy), to support the technical progress of civil aviation.
Candi Kubeck	Kubeck became a captain for ValuJet Airlines and flew DC-9 s. On May 11, 1996, Valujet Flight 592, a DC-9 she was piloting, crashed into the Florida Everglades just ten minutes after take-off.
Theodore G. Ellyson	He also cooperated with Curtiss in the design of a pontoon for aircraft and after Curtiss' first flight on 27 January 1911, Ellyson went up with Curtiss in February to become the first passenger to go aloft in a floatplane.
Marion Eugene Carl	In 1947, Carl was one of two pilots selected to fly the Douglas D-558 / I Skystreak in record-setting speed attempts.
Frederick M. Trapnell	In 1938, Lt. Trapnell flew in a squadron of eighteen bombers from San Diego, California to Honolulu, Hawaii in what was'' the greatest over-ocean formation flight'' to date.
William Randolph Lovelace II	On 24 June 1943 he bailed out of an aircraft flying at 40,200 feet.
Pierre de Caters	He was also the first Belgian to receive a pilot license from the Belgian air club on 2 December 1909 and received a gold medal for the first kilometer in the same year.
Amelia Earhart	On January 11, 1935, Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California.
Lewis E. Goodier, Jr.	He was seriously injured in a demonstration accident on November 5, 1914 while flying with Glenn L. Martin in a new aircraft undergoing a required competitive slow speed test, the aircraft stalled, and when Martin overcorrected with too much throttle, went into what was described as the first tailspin.
Helen Harrison-Bristol	In 1939 she was appointed chief flying instructor at the Sheffield Aero Club, then journeyed to the United States to earn that country's commercial pilot's certificate.
Stanley Spencer (aeronaut)	Stanley's family had a history of flying : all his five siblings were also aeronauts, with Arthur and Percival the more well-known ; his father Charles Green Spencer pioneered gliding and founded the balloon factory C. G. Spencer & Sons in London ; In 15 September 1898, Stanley piloted a hydrogen balloon for the meteorologist Arthur Berson in what was believed to be a record ascent to 27,500 feet.
L. H. Sumanadasa	He learnt to fly with the London Aeroplane Club at Hatfield with Geoffrey de Havilland, Jr. as his instructor and made his first solo in and passed his A licence in 1934 (flying a DH.
Arthur F. Gorham	In November 1941 he graduated from the newly created Airborne School receiving a'' Certificate of Proficiency'' signed by then Major Robert Sink and, more importantly, a set of silver jump wings.
Harry Broadhurst	He returned to the UK in 1944 to command No. 83 Group, On return to the UK, Broadhurst was to land at London Heathrow Airport, a civil airport, to complete the successful tour before the assembled aviation media.
Charles Rolls	On 12 July 1910, at the age of 32, Rolls was killed in an air crash at Hengistbury Airfield, Southbourne, Bournemouth when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display.
Dellen Millard	In 1999, at the age of fourteen, he held the world record for the youngest solo helicopter flight, and became the youngest Canadian to pilot a helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft on the same day.
Octave Chanute	Chanute first became interested in aviation watching a balloon take off in Peoria, IL, in 1856.
Sidney Cotton	In 1920, he embarked on an unsuccessful attempt to fly from England to South Africa, and also made a lucky escape from a crash at the Aerial Derby.
Frank Hawks	After setting a bevy of new intercity marks, Hawks resigned from Texaco in 1935, but remained active as an aviation consultant and a test and demonstration pilot.
Neville Duke	He gave a display in the new fighter at the Farnborough Airshow on 6 September 1952, shortly after a prototype de Havilland DH 110, piloted by his friend John Derry, had broken up in flight, killing Derry and his observer Tony Richards, along with 28 spectators.''
Jimmy Doolittle	In September 1922, he made the first of many pioneering flights, flying a de Havilland DH-4 -- which was equipped with early navigational instruments -- in the first cross-country flight, from Pablo Beach (renamed Jacksonville Beach), Florida, to Rockwell Field, San Diego, California, in 21 hours and 19 minutes, making only one refueling stop at Kelly Field.
Joseph Henderson (pilot)	On November 5, 1872, Henderson spoke at a meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Pilots about how he and his pilot boat Pet, No. 9, rescued the crew of the brig Emily.
Erik Lindbergh	In May 2002, Erik Lindbergh honored the 75th anniversary of his grandfather's historic flight by re-tracing the flight across the Atlantic in a small single engine aircraft, a Lancair Columbia 300 dubbed The New Spirit of St. Louis which cost USD $ 289,000.
HA Schult	thumb | right | Flügelauto (winged car) Crash : As his contribution to the 1977 documenta VI, he hired a stunt pilot to crash a Cessna into the garbage dump on Staten Island, New York.
Roland Garros (aviator)	In September he established a new world altitude record of By 1913 he had switched to flying the faster Morane-Saulnier monoplanes, and gained fame for making the first non-stop flight across the Mediterranean Sea from Fréjus in the south of France to Bizerte in Tunisia.
Derek Piggott	thumb | right | 250px | A replica of Cayley's glider being flown by Derek Piggott in 1973 Another notable film role, was Derek Piggott's contribution to Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines in which he flew and advised on the construction of several of the early aircraft recreated for use in the film.
C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson	Under Buehl's tutelage and personal insistence, in February 1932, Anderson became the first African American to receive an air transport pilot's license from the Civil Aeronautics Administration.
Tony Jannus	He flew the first airplane from which a parachute jump was made, in 1912.
Sheridan Smith	In 2004, she made a one-episode appearance in Mile High as Suzy, an airport cleaner who was so desperate to become cabin crew, she impersonated a flight attendant.
Helmut Lent	On 5 October 1944, Lent flew a Junkers Ju 88 on a routine transit flight from Stade to Nordborchen, south of Paderborn.
Robert E. Thacker	His most notable achievement came in 1947 with his test of Betty Jo, a North American F-82 Twin Mustang named after his wife.
Thomas W. Steed	Major Steed received the Distinguished Flying Cross in May 1941, as a member of the first flight of B-17s from Hamilton Field, California, to Hickam Field, Hawaii.
Albert Bond Lambert	In 1927 Lambert was one of the St. Louis committee of backers to Charles Lindbergh's purchasing of his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis for his epoch making transatlantic solo trip to Paris.
Hilda Hewlett	Hewlett also taught her son, Francis, to fly ; he earned pilot's certificate no. 156 on 14 November 1911 and went on to have a distinguished military aviation career in both the UK and New Zealand, making him the first military pilot taught to fly by his mother.
Stephen Appleby	By June 1932, he had learned to fly, and also purchased a 34 hp ABC Scorpion engine for his HM.
Percival H. Spencer	In December 1941, Spencer put the Air Car into storage and joined the war effort as a test pilot for the Republic Aircraft Corporation.
Joseph Duckworth	Duckworth's most notable single achievement occurred on July 27, 1943, when he flew an AT-6 single engine trainer into a small but strong hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston, Texas, becoming the first person to safely fly through a hurricane.
Helen Harrison-Bristol	She acquired additional instruction at Johannesburg, South Africa before returning to England in 1935 to qualify for a commercial pilot's license.
Eric Orr	In 1968, he participated in experiments in hypnosis and passed out 10,000 bags of fresh air in downtown Los Angeles.
Edson Fessenden Gallaudet	In 1923, Gallaudet built an all-metal aircraft which flew on June 20, 1923 at Wright Field.
Charlie Kulp	Throughout his career as the Flying Farmer, Kulp has flown a standard Piper J-3 Cub, unchanged and unmodified since it was manufactured in 1946.
John Lankester Parker	In 1948 he was the first recipient of the Guild's Brackley Memorial Trophy,'' awarded to a transport pilot (s) or navigator (s), for outstanding flying, contributing to the operational development of air transport, or transport aircraft, or of new techniques in air transport flying.''
Charles Kingsford Smith	In 1933, Seven Mile Beach, New South Wales, was used by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith as the runway for the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
Stasys Gir?nas	In 1931 he won the first prize at the Chicago Air Festival for the best landing of a plane with its engine turned off.
John Downey (RAF officer)	After the war he flew Aries III, a modified Lincoln bomber taking off on 20 October 1950 on a round-the-world flight of 29,000 miles.
Keith Virtue	On 15 November 1954, one mistake in 23170 hours of flying, when he failed to lower the undercarriage of DC-4 Skymaster VH-ANF when landing in Brisbane, lead to his retirement from commercial flying in Australia.
Engelbert Zaschka	In 1934 Engelbert Zaschka completed a large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft.
Amelia Earhart	In 1929, Earhart was among the first aviators to promote commercial air travel through the development of a passenger airline service ; along with Charles Lindbergh, she represented Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) and invested time and money in setting up the first regional shuttle service between New York and Washington, DC.
John F. Leeming	John, had become an authority on flying, (his book Pilots' A' Licence published in 1935), was asked to find an new airport location by Manchester Corporation.
Lewis H. Brereton	Brereton returned to Rockwell in November, and after the school officially opened in December, passed the test qualifying him for a rating of Military Aviator on March 27, 1913, the 10th pilot to earn the rating.
Francesco Agello	However, one after the other, the test pilots ahead of Agello died (first Monti and then Bellini flying the M. C. 72, Neri died flying a CR-20 in 1933).
F. L. Barnard	On 13 October 1919, he was employed by Instone Air Line, flying parcels and mail in an Airco DH.
James P. Hagerstrom	However, he enjoyed his tenure there and flew the P-38 and North American P-51 Mustang in the 1948 Cleveland Air Races.
Brian Binnie	On December 17, 2003, the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight, Binnie piloted the first powered test flight of SpaceShipOne, flight 11P, which reached a top speed of Mach 1.
H?l?ne Dutrieu	In 1908 Dutrieu was asked by the Clément Bayard factory, in France, to be the first pilot of its new ultralight aeroplane, the Santos-Dumont - designed no. 19'' Demoiselle'' (Young Lady) monoplane.
Salvador E. Felices	In 1955, Felices completed the instructor course for the B-52 thumb | 150px | left |'' Operation Power-Flite' was the first round-the-world nonstop flight by a jet airplane.
F. L. Barnard	He was once reported to be a cousin of Captain C. D. Barnard, a pilot who was also notable in air racing events, but that was disproved in the results of the 1901 UK census.
Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria	He was fascinated by balloons from an early age ; in 1909, he arranged a balloon flight from his manor in Linz to Dieppe in France, which lasted 16 hours.
Ludwik Idzikowski	In April 1926, Idzikowski was sent to France with a Polish military mission, where he tested aircraft bought by the Polish government.