Plane Tales

If you are anything like the usual aviation enthusiast you’ll have a list of famous names in your head that you can quote at parties to bore your friends like, Wilbur and Orville, Bleriot, Richthofen, Lindbergh, Sikorsky, Whittle, Yeager and such but I wonder if you can place some of the others who deserve recognition.   Charlie Taylor   Hans Von Ohain   Ohain's HeS8 jet engine   The He178   The He280   Gloster E-28   Olive-Ann and TravelAir   The Staggerwing   Doolittle and the Mystery Ship   Louise Thaden     Bessie Coleman   Mae Jemison   Houdini   Colin Defries   Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the USAF, the Air Force Research Lab, Embryriddle, RAF/IWM, SDASM, Flugkerl2, BAC, NASA, Museums Victoria,