On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 09:31:05 -0400, "Scott M. Kozel" wrote:

Leonardo da Vinci lived 1452-1519, centuries before the actual aviation
and aerospace era. Did anyone else on the list predate the actual
practice by a large margin?

Well, Daniel Bernoulli died in 1782. Maybe that's the second largest "margin"
on the list. (?)

Dale

Richard Branson one notch ahead of Yuri Gagarin? Weird...