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BOOKS ON AVIATION & HUMAN FLIGHT
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Igor Sikorsky
b. 5-25-1889; Kiev, Russian Empire (today Ukraine)
d. 10-26-1972; Easton, Connecticut
Igor Sikorsky pioneered advancements in helicopter and fixed wing air-craft, was the founder of the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, and developed the first of Pan American Airways' flying boats.
FYI ~ In 1934 early film journalists Martin and Osa Johnson were the first to fly over Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, and filmed the adventure from their Sikorsky aircraft.
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Luke Skywalker
Fictional character from Star Wars movies.
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Sir Thomas Sopwith
b. 1-18-1888; Kensington, London, England
d. 1-27-1989
Thomas Sopwith's company produced more than 18,000 British World War I aircraft for the allied forces, including 5747 of the famous Sopwith Camel single-seat fighter.
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Viola Spencer, née Edith Maud Cook
b. 9-1-1878; Ipswich, Suffolk, England
d. 7-14-1910; Coventry
Viola Spencer died from injuries suffered in a parachute exhibition when a gust of wind caused her to parachute to fail forcing her into a factory roof. It is thought she was the first British woman to pilot a plane.
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Katherine & Marjorie Stinson
Sisters Katherine (1891-1977) and Marjorie Stinson were pioneer aviators and flying instructors in the family flight school pre World War I.
Katherine Stinson, who gave up her piano career to fly, was one of the first women to do a loop (1915), flew mail planes, did fundraising tours for the American Red Cross, became an ambulance driver in Europe, and finally an architect living in Santa Fe, NM.
FYI ~ The general aviation airport in San Antonio, Texas, is named after the Stinson family, and their brothers formed the Stinson Aircraft Company that did business at the current location of the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.
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John Stringfellow
b. 1799; Sheffield, England
d. 12-13-1883; Coventry
The world's first powered flight took place in 1848 under the supervision of John Stringfellow in the English town of Chard. Stringfellow was a bobbin and carriage maker for lacemaking who collaborated with fellow lace-making innovator W. S. Henson on the Aerial Steam Carriage.
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Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger
b. 1-23-1951; Denison, TX
Sullenberger is best remembered for ditching a US Airways Flight into the Hudson River after the plane was struck by a flight of birds, January 15, 2009, without lose of life.
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John “Jack” Swigert
b. 8-30-1931; Denver, CO
d. 12-27-1982; Washington, DC (bone cancer)
Jack Swigert was a member of the Apollo 13 crew, replacing astronaut Ken Mattingly at the last moment. Swigert, caught in the Apollo 15 stamp incident, was eliminated from further space assignments. After leaving NASA Swigert was elected as a Representative from Colorado in 1982 but died before he could be sworn in.
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