Early Birds of Aviation

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 125. Chapters: Anthony Fokker, Charles Rolls, Louis Blériot, Henry H. Arnold, Lewis H. Brereton, Frank Purdy Lahm, Allan Haines Loughead, Short Brothers, Benjamin Foulois, Glenn Curtiss, Thomas F. Hamilton, Igor Sikorsky, George Brett, Carl Andrew Spaatz, Assen Jordanoff, Léon Lemartin, John Henry Towers, Ralph Royce, Didier Masson, John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, Aldasoro brothers, Frederick Trubee Davison, Louis Paulhan, Harry Ferguson, Reuben Hollis Fleet, Theodore Gordon Ellyson, Bernetta Adams Miller, Millard Harmon, William Thaw II, Vernon Burge, Luis de Florez, Hiram Percy Maxim, Blanche Stuart Scott, Robert George Fowler, Thomas Sopwith, Vincent Burnelli, James Floyd Smith, Ernest Failloubaz, Oskar Bider, Alan Ramsay Hawley, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Frederick Erastus Humphreys, Glenn L. Martin, Matilde E. Moisant, Paul W. Beck, René Grandjean, Walter Richard Brookins, John F. Curry, Augustus Roy Knabenshue, Paul E. Garber, Frederick Walker Baldwin, William Edmund Scripps, Edward Robert Armstrong, Boland brothers, Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, Walter Edwin Lees, Oliver Colin LeBoutillier, Claude Grahame White, John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, George William Beatty, Katherine Stinson, Patrick N. L. Bellinger, Albert Cushing Read, Otto William Timm, Glenn Messer, Ed Musick, Morris Maxey Titterington, Arthur Pratt Warner, William Harper, Jr., Frank Trenholm Coffyn, Jean Louis Conneau, George Dominic Murray, DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, Wittemann brothers, Joseph M. Pallissard, Horatio Barber, Francis Thomas Evans, Sr., Michael Gregor, Harold D. Kantner, Albert J. Engel, Hugh Armstrong Robinson, Carl Sterling Bates, Oliver George Simmons, Logan Archbold Vilas, Ralph Hazlett Upson, Marshall Earle Reid, Richard Bernard Barnitz, Tiny Broadwick, E. A. Goff, Jr., Alfred LeBlanc, Ruth Bancroft Law, Charles F. West, Henri Fabre, Theodor Kober, Henri Lachambre, Goethe Link, Caleb Bragg, Gustav Blondeau, Wilbur R. Kimball, Holden C. Richardson, Hilder Florentina Smith, Warren Samuel Eaton, Gustavo Salinas Camiña, Arthur Burr Stone, Lawrence Malcolm Allison, James Clifford Turpin, Roland Rohlfs, Harry Bingham Brown, George Debaun Grundy, Jr., H. Roy Waite, Lester F. Bishop, Karl Gehlen. Excerpt: Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (June 25, 1886 - January 15, 1950) was an American general officer holding the grades of General of the Army and later General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps (1938-1941), Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, the only Air Force general to hold five-star rank, and the only person to hold a five-star rank in two different U.S. military services. Instructed in flying by the Wright Brothers, Arnold was one of the first military pilots worldwide, and the second rated pilot in the history of the United States Air Force. He overcame a fear of flying that resulted from his experiences with early flight, supervised the expansion of the Air Service during World War I, and became a protégé of Gen. Billy Mitchell. He rose to command the Army Air Forces immediately prior to U.S. entry into World War II and directed its expansion into the largest and most powerful Air Force in the world. An advocate of technological research and development, Arnold's tenure saw the development of the intercontinental bomber, the jet fighter, the extensive use of radar, global airlift and atomic warfare as mainstays of modern air power. Arnold's primary nic...