BRIAN THOMAS

Charles Augustus Lindbergh
(February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)

In the first flight of its kind, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart
departed Wheeler Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a solo flight to
North America. Hawaiian commercial interests offered a $10,000
award to whoever accomplished the flight first. The next day,
after traveling 2,400 miles in 18 hours, she safely landed at
Oakland Airport in Oakland, California.

Amelia Earhart stands in the cockpit of her Lockheed Vega
5C (NR-965Y) surrounded by a large crowd after completing
her nonstop solo flight from Hawaii to Oakland, California,

Amelia Mary Earhart
(July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937)

Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the
first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft on December 17, 1903. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and
covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.

The Wright Flyer at Carillon Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio.

MIKE GRACIA

1948

1947

CAMILLE
BOHANNON

Sir James Paul McCartney is 79 today