"Paul E. Garber First Flight Shrine" Top 5 Page for this destination Kill Devil Hills Things to Do Tip by grandmaR

Each year, one or more individuals who have been pioneers of aviation are honored by having their portraits hung in the Visitor's Center.

Pictured, going right to left on the top row:

1) Amelia Earhart 1898 - 1937 First Woman To Fly Solo Across The Atlantic, 1932 First Pilot To Fly Solo Hawaii To California, 1935 Inducted in 1968

2) General James H. Doolittle 1896 - 1993
First To Make An All-Blind Instrument Flight From Take Off to Landing, 1929. Inducted in 1969

3) Jacqueline Cochran 1906 - 1980 First Woman To Pilot An Aircraft Supersonically, 1953 Inducted in 1968

4) Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd 1888 - 1957
First To Fly Over The North Pole, 1926
First To Fly Over The South Pole, 1929. Inducted in 1968

5) General Charles E. Yeager 1923 -
First Person To Pilot An Aircraft At Supersonic Speed, 1947 Inducted in 1968

6) Captain Henry T. Merrill 1894 - 1982 First Pilot To Make A Commercial Round-trip Flight Over The Atlantic, 1937 Inducted in 1976

7) Grover C. Loening 1888 - 1976 Army’s First Civilian Aeronautical Engineer, 1914 Inducted in 1972

Coming back towards us starting far left on bottom row

1) Alberto Santos-Dumont (in the funny white hat) 1873 - 1932 First To Fly A Heavier-Than-Air Machine In Europe, 1906 Inducted in 1981

2) Bessie Coleman 1893-1926 First Black Woman Licensed Pilot Inducted in 1989

3) Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge 1882 - 1908 First Military Officer To Pilot An Airplane, 1908 First Fatality In Powered Aviation, 1908 Inducted in 1971

4) Major General Benjamin D. Foulois 1879 - 1967 First United States Military Aviator Inducted in 1980

Directions: Inside the visitor's center surrounding the Wright Flyer replica
Website: http://www.firstflight.org/shrine.cfm