A few days before she left, she gave a small American flag to her friend Jacqueline Cochran, another female pilot.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Pilot Chesley Sullenberger safely landed a US Airways passenger plane on New York's Hudson River after both its engines failed.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

It carried the man who became the first human to step on the moon, Neil Armstrong, a former X-15 pilot.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

A month later, on the morning of May fifth, American Navy pilot Alan Shepard crawled into his little Mercury spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

In another example, pilot Edith Foltz Stearns was flying a plane to a military base in Scotland during World War Two.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

But when it landed, the pilot could take off the wings and propeller and drive it like any other car.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

When last heard from, Amelia Earhart was seeking to become the first female pilot to fly a plane around the world.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

Louie Zamperini and pilot Russell Allen Phillips survived forty-seven days at sea before their raft washed up on an island.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

Air Force pilot Gordon Cooper became an expert on the Redstone Rocket that would launch Mercury astronauts on short training flights.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The pilot gets on his radio and calls "mayday,mayday,mayday" to tell that his plane is in danger of crashing to the ground.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

The former cotton picker and beauty technician now was the only licensed black woman pilot in the world.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

It could change the plane's path just enough to destroy the pilot's chance of a safe landing.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The crash also took the lives of the pilot and two other singers -- J.P.Richardson, known as the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

She read about the first flight of the Wright Brothers and the first American female pilot,Harriet Quimby.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

In nineteen thirty-two, the child of the famous American pilot Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped and later killed.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

But he was killed in nineteen forty-four during service as a Navy pilot in World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Future generations may sing about the "hero on the Hudson" - the pilot who saved his passengers when he crash-landed on a river.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

He was a test pilot. He had flown earlier on one of the two-man Gemini space flights.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

There was a new system of liquid nitrogen to keep the pilot cool and to resist the crushing force of gravity at high speeds.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

On January 24th, the pilot known as "Sully" was honored in his hometown of Danville, California.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

The seats were built for the pilot to escape from an airplane in case of disaster.

VOA: special.2010.02.09