Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Louise McPhetridge Thaden: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last updated

Facts

Also Known As Iris Louise McPhetridge
Born November 12, 1905 • Arkansas
Died November 9, 1979 (aged 73) • High Point • North Carolina
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
Portrait of Amelia Earhart smiling, wearing a collared shirt and jacket.
Amelia Earhart
American aviator
Markham, Beryl
Beryl Markham
British author and aviator
default image
Orville Wright
American aviator
default image
Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran
American pilot
Louis Blériot standing before his Type XI monoplane, which he flew across the English Channel on July 25, 1909.
Louis Blériot
French aviator
Sir Francis Chichester
Sir Francis Chichester
British adventurer
default image
Hanna Reitsch
German aviator
Alex McEvoy: portrait of Sir John William Alcock
Sir John William Alcock
British aviator
Sheila Scott
Sheila Scott
British aviator
Kingsford Smith
Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith
Australian pilot
Farman, Henri
Henri Farman
French aircraft manufacturer
Jean Batten
Jean Batten
New Zealand aviator
default image
Amy Johnson
English aviator
Maurice Farman, 1909
Maurice Farman
French aircraft designer and manufacturer
A photograph of Igor Sikorsky holding a model aircraft.
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Howard Hughes, wearing a flight suit and goggles, sits in the cockpit of an airplane, looking toward the camera.
Howard Hughes
American manufacturer, aviator, and film producer
Wally Funk, wearing a red blazer, speaks with hands clasped at the 2022 Michael Collins Trophy presentation at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
Wally Funk
American aviator
Hazel Ying Lee
Hazel Ying Lee
Chinese American pilot

Related Quizzes

NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
History of Flight Quiz