| 100% | BLERIOT | 7 | Louis —, French aviator who made the first flight across the English Channel |
| 57% | ALCOCK | 6 | John W —, English aviator who, with A W Brown, made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic |
| 48% | POST | 4 | Wiley —, US aviator who made the first solo flight around the world in 1933 |
| 44% | BYRD | 4 | Explorer Richard who made the first flight over the South Pole |
| 40% | GAGARIN | 7 | Yuri —, Soviet cosmonaut who made the first manned space flight in 1961 |
| 39% | BLERIOT | 7 | Louis, pilot who flew the English Channel in 1909 |
| 38% | KRONFELD | 8 | Robert —, Austria-born sailplane designer; first pilot to fly a glider across the English Channel |
| 37% | AMELIA | 6 | Earhart who was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic |
| 36% | AMELIA | 6 | American aviator ___ Earhart who was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean |
| 36% | GENE | 4 | NASA Flight Director Kranz who directed Apollo 11's mission to make the first lunar landing |
| 35% | ARE | 3 | Êtes, across the English Channel |
| 35% | AND | 3 | Et, across the English Channel |
| 35% | MERCI | 5 | "Thank you" across the English Channel |
| 34% | SOMME | 5 | French river to the English Channel |
| 34% | ORNE | 4 | French river to the English Channel |
| 34% | CALAIS | 6 | French port on the English Channel |
| 34% | CAEN | 4 | French city near the English Channel |
| 33% | EDERLE | 6 | First woman to swim the English Channel |
| 33% | EDERLE | 6 | First woman swimmer of the English Channel |
| 33% | MANCHE | 6 | French name for the English Channel: La __ |
| 33% | BLERIOT | 7 | French pilot, the first to cross the Channel |
| 33% | YEAGER | 6 | Chuck __, made the first supersonic flight |
| 33% | GORE | 4 | Representative who made the first speech on C-SPAN in 1979 |
| 33% | BRETON | 6 | Andre —, French poet who published the first Surrealist manifesto in 1924 |
| 33% | CAEN | 4 | French city near the English Channel (anagram of "cane") |
| 33% | VOLTAIRE | 8 | French philosopher who wrote The Age of Louis XIV |
| 32% | BLERIOT | 7 | Louis __, 1st pilot to cross the English Channel |
| 32% | EDERLE | 6 | Gertrude ___, first woman to swim the English Channel |
| 32% | QUIMBY | 6 | Harriet, first woman to fly the English Channel |
| 32% | HARRIETQUIMBY | 13 | First woman to earn a pilot's license in the United States and the first woman to fly across the English Channel (2 wds.) |