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Wilbur Wright
American aviator
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Orville Wright
American aviator
Octave Chanute
Octave Chanute
American engineer
Lilienthal glider
Otto Lilienthal
German aeronautical engineer
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Hanna Reitsch
German aviator
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
Pilcher Hawk
Percy Sinclair Pilcher
British engineer
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Hans Werner Grosse
German pilot

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