AUTOGRAPHED EXPLORER GALLERY

PUSHING the LIMIT
The sky wasn´t the limit, but the premise for Zeppelin, inventing the dirigible, Auguste Piccard, Channelflier Bleriot and Orville Wright, the first test pilot	The attempts to cross the Atlantic in an hot-air balloon finally payed off when "Double Eagle II" with Anderson, Newman and Abruzzo succeeded	Test pilots Duncan Simpson, Peter Twiss and "Concordians" french André Turcat and the british Brian Trubshaw, who worked jointly on the supersonic liner
Balloonist ascending Audouin Dollfus first transglobal aviators Wiley Post and H.Gatty, seaplane pioneer Rodgers, Umberto Nobile and Mikhail Gromov	Inventor Paul Moller seated in his able-to-fly Sky Car, perhaps giving us a glimpse of a near future with his Skycars in every man´s garage?	Dick Rutan and Yenna Yeager made first non-stop glabal flight with Voyager, built "Space Ship One" engineering brother Burt Rutan Moller and Allison pioneered the flying car!
Kanellos Kanellopoulos managed first human powered flight in 1998, "cycling" from Crete to Santorini; Bedford made first VTOL ship landing and Harrier WR pilot Lecky-Thomson	Rocket plane pilots XX x x xt	Blackbird SR70 pilot Eldon Joersz Jr pushed the world aerial speed record to 2.184 mph/3.530 km/h in 1976, jointly with George Morgan - and it still stands
Swedish JAS Gripen tested by Holmström and Rådeström, who spectaculary crashed twice !	x x	x x
von Rosen aided Ethiopia building an air force in the 50´s and bravely "food-bombed" Biafra during the civil war; Schyberg and Reuterswärd assisted Nobile´s "Italia" in the 1929 Artic drama	Legendary Spitfire pilot Alex Henshaw improved new models throughout the War. In 1939 he flew his "Mew Gull" to the Cape in a still unbeaten !!! recordtime	the unusually designed air-craft the forward swept winged X-29 was test-flown by NASA pilots Steve Ishmael and Rogers Smith
Luftwaffe testpilot Gunther Eheim flew first jet bomber "The Arado" 1944-45	Spitfire test pilot Alex Henshaw and Arado jet bomber pilot Eheim	X-29 chief pilot Rogers Smith celebrating the 200th testflight
Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand made several attempts to circumnavigate the Globe in a balloon. Branson is also a noted odd "Virgin" business leader	Belgian balloonist Dollfuss taking off, von Gronau pioneered the seaplanes and Spaatz and Eaker made the first blind flight before becoming WWII heros	Mattias Rust sensationally flew and landed his Cessna on the Red Square! British Jean Batten excelled in long distance flying with several records
Maxie Anderson and Don Ida floating above the Nile in a balloon named after "Jules Verne"	Test pilots Duncan Simpson, Peter Twiss and "Concordians" french André Turcat and and british Brian Trubshaw	British naval aviator Eric "Winkle" Brown had most deck landings, catapult lauches and flown types Tom McMurtry flew F-15 and the Shuttle Carrier
Following the Piccard family explorer tradition, as son of Jacques and grandson of Auguste, Bertrand Piccard made the first transglobal!	The Quest for a transglobal balloon flight non-stop was finally decided by Piccard and Jones in 1998 with the "Breitling Orbiter 3"	x x x x
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