In article ,
(Henry Spencer) writes:
In article ,
Dale wrote:
Weird list. Why is Will Rogers on it (at #46), but Wiley Ford isn't?
John Glenn is at #89; 25 places below "Wrong Way" Corrigan?

Well, Corrigan _was_ a better storyteller.

Willy Ley and Chesley Bonestell aren't there at all.

Or Hermann Oberth.

Or for that matter, Lee Begin, Ed Schmued... But Leduc is there. Go
figure.

Yeager is there, but Crossfield, Apt, Walker, Kincheloe,
etc. aren't.


Rickenbacker, von Richthofen, Boyington, Bader, etc. are there --
charismatic fighter pilots, yes, but contributors to aviation?? -- and
Erich Hartmann isn't.

Well, in Rickenbacker's defense, he was a lot more than a "Charismatic
fighter pilot". He was also a very early and long-term mover and
shaker in the development of Air Transportation, running Eastern Air
Transport/Eastern Air Lines from teh 1930s through the 1950s. He was
also a key member of a number of wartime Production and Advisory
Boards during WW 2.



The Challenger crew (killed on a supposedly-routine flight) are there, but
Vladimir Komarov (killed testing a new manned spacecraft) is
missing.

Or, for that matter, teh Columbia crew, as well.

Langley (who as far as I know, never got anything to fly) is near the
top, while Paul MacCready (Gossamer Condor etc.) is nowhere to be found.

It's good that Burt Rutan is listed, but I miss Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager
(it was they and their helpers, not Burt, who built Voyager).
Bleriot below Eiffel? Curtiss and Messerschmitt and Boeing but not Fokker
or de Havilland or Mikoyan?? James Van Allen but not Max Faget or William
Pickering???

And why Leduc, and Latecoere, and not Farman?

And no Sam Heron, Halford, Renschler, or von Ohain.

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Pete Stickney
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