Category
page 1Glider flight record holders
Otto Lilienthal
German aviation pioneer (1848-1896)
Hanna Reitsch
German aviator (1912–1979)
Steve Fossett
American businessman, record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer
Percy Pilcher
British aviator (1866–1899)
Sergei Anokhin
Soviet test pilot and sportsman in gliding (1910-1986)
Angelo d'Arrigo
Italian aviator (1961–2006)
Élisabeth Boselli
French fighter pilot (1914-2005)
Wolf Hirth
German gliding pioneer (1900-1959)
Robert Piché
Canadian aviator
Ernst Steinhoff
rocket scientist (1908–1987)
Ada Rogato
pilot
Heini Dittmar
German aviator (1911–1960)
Robert Kronfeld
Austrian gliding champion (1904–1948)
Sebastian Kawa
Polish glider pilot
Yevgeniya Prokhorova
Soviet aviator (1912–1942)
Hans-Werner Grosse
German pilot
Klaus Ohlmann
German aviator
William Hawley Bowlus
glider designer (1896-1967)
Angelika Machinek
German glider pilot and dramaturge (1956–2006)
Joachim Kuettner
German-American scientist
Jim Bede
American aviation inventor
Derek Piggott
British glider pilot and flying instructor
Marcelle Choisnet
French aviator (1914-1974)
Peter Riedel
German gliding champion