List of People From Oklahoma - Aviation/aeronautics

Aviation/aeronautics

  • Thomas and Paul Braniff, airline entrepreneurs, founders of Braniff International Airways
  • Gordon Cooper (1927–2006)
  • Owen K. Garriott (born 1930), astronaut
  • John Herrington (born 1958), astronaut
  • James Jabara (1923–1966) world's first jet ace, and Korean War triple ace with 15 kills
  • Shannon Lucid (born 1943), astronaut
  • William R. Pogue (born 1930), astronaut
  • Wiley Post (1898–1935), first pilot to fly solo around the world, (born in Texas but grew up in Oklahoma)
  • Thomas Stafford (born 1930), astronaut
  • Clarence L. Tinker (1887–1942), U.S. Army Air Corps general and supreme commander of the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Pacific during World War II

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