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Earl N. Findley, a life-long friend of both Orville and Wilbur Wright, has been a prominent aviation writer, editor, and publisher for 45 years.
Rear Admiral Luis de Florez, since receiving a commercial aviation license in 1912 has been a Navy leader in the field of instruments, accessories, and training devices.
Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, who operated the first dirigible pur-chased by the U.S. Government in 1908, was Chief of the Air Service in France in 1917-18 and led the first American planes over German lines.
Beckwich Havens, a pilot for the Curtiss Exhibition Company as early as 1910, served as a test pilot and instructor for the U.S. Naval Air Service in World War I.
Dr. Jerome C. Hunsaker, chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, is an aeronautical engineer who built the first wind tunnel in the United States and was in charge of naval aircraft construction in the first World War.

Brigadier General Frank P. Lahm, the first U.S. Army pilot, has held airship, balloon, and airplane licenses since 1905. He flew with Orville Wright on tests of the first place bought by the U.S. Government and in 1912 established the Army Air Service in the Philippine Islands.
Brigadier General T. DeWitt Milling learned to fly at the Wright brothers school in Dayton, Ohio in 1911 and set a world endurance record the same year. He helped organize the first U.S. Army aviation schools.
Blanche Noyes, Chief of the Air Route Marking Branch, Federal Airways, at the Department of Commerce, was one of the nation's early race pilots and aircraft designers, and is still and active flier.
Ruth Law Oliver, pioneer exhibition flier, soloed in1912, was the first woman to loop an airplane in 1915, and carried the first airmail in the Philippines in 1919.
Katherine Stinson Otero, in 1912 became the first aviatrix to own and operate a flying school.
Rear Admiral Albert C. Read, a naval officer since 1906 and an aviator since 1915, commanded the seaplane NC-4 in May, 1919, on the first successful trans-Atlantic flight.
Captain Holden C. Richardson, active in Navy aviation activities since 1907, designed, built, and flew many naval aircraft.
Blance Stuart Scott, who soloed in 1910, was the only woman personally taught to fly by Glenn H. Curtiss.
Admiral John H. Towers, Naval Aviation No. 3, participated in the Atlantic flight by four seaplanes in 1919 and when his plane, the NC-3, landed on the water, he taxied it 60 hours to the Azores.