100% | KRONFELD | 8 | Robert —, Austria-born sailplane designer; first pilot to fly a glider across the English Channel |
39% | 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.) |
36% | QUIMBY | 6 | Harriet, first woman to fly the English Channel |
31% | AMELIAEARHART | 13 | First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean: 2 wds. |
31% | AMELIAEARHART | 13 | First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (2 wds.) |
30% | EDERLE | 6 | First woman to swim the English Channel |
30% | BLERIOT | 7 | French pilot, the first to cross the Channel |
29% | ARE | 3 | Êtes, across the English Channel |
29% | AND | 3 | Et, across the English Channel |
29% | HOOKE | 5 | Robert —, English scientist born in 1635 who built the first Gregorian telescope |
29% | MERCI | 5 | "Thank you" across the English Channel |
29% | NONET | 5 | A chamber work by Louis Spohr was the first to bear this title |
28% | BLERIOT | 7 | Louis, pilot who flew the English Channel in 1909 |
28% | TESTPILOT | 9 | First person to fly a plane |
28% | AMELIAEARHART | 13 | First female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic: 2 wds. |
28% | EARHART | 7 | Amelia —, first woman to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic |
28% | PANAM | 5 | First airline to fly a jumbo jet |
27% | BLERIOT | 7 | Louis __, 1st pilot to cross the English Channel |
27% | BURKE | 5 | Robert O'Hara —, leader of the first expedition across Australia from south to north who died in 1861 |
27% | DRIBBLE | 7 | To bounce a basketball across the court |
27% | AMELIA | 6 | Earhart who was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic |
27% | CHUCKYEAGER | 11 | First pilot to travel faster than the speed of sound |
27% | EDERLE | 6 | Gertrude ___, first woman to swim the English Channel |
27% | YEAGER | 6 | Chuck, first pilot to break the sound barrier |
26% | HEDGEHOP | 8 | Fly a plane close to the ground |
26% | AMYMCGRATH | 10 | First woman to fly an F/A-18 in combat for the U.S. Marine Corps |
26% | SWUM | 4 | Like the English Channel for the first time in 1875 |
26% | JOHNYOUNG | 9 | First person to fly solo around the Moon |
25% | EDERLE | 6 | Gertrude ___, the first woman to swim the English Channel |
25% | WILEYPOST | 9 | First person to fly solo around the world (1933) |