Aviation Pioneers

Kansans honored at the 24th Annual Wright Brothers Celebration. […]

Walter J. Boyne, former director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, retired in 1974 as a Colonel with more than 5,000 hours in a score of aircraft including the B-50, B-47 and the B-52. […]

Dr. Hawley was selected as a NASA astronaut in January of 1978. […]

Design and engineering were Ted’s forte. […]

President and Chief Executive Officer of the BE A PILOT Foundation in Washington D.C. […]

Known for his innovative leadership skills and entrepreneurial abilities, he became an internationally respected aviation executive. […]

Edward H. Phillips is a general aviation researcher, historian and author. […]

While other Midwest boys were riding bicycles, building treehouses and spending lazy summer afternoons fishing in the Arkansas River, Clay became interested in model airplanes at age 5. […]

As a former president of Beech Aircraft Corporation in Wichita, Frank E. Hedrick believed that a person should do any job assigned better than the job had ever been done before. […]

When Ron was growing up in Burlington, Iowa, he fantasized about becoming a pilot. Not only did his dream come true, he is the sole owner of a very successful airline. […]