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Old 27th Dec 2014, 17:31
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Wilbur and Orville, they started it all.

Anybody who survived the carnage of WW1 and there were few of those.
Jeffery Quill and Mutt Summers for their work in and before WW2.

Erich Hartman as a fighter pilot.

Leonard Cheshire as a leader and humanitarian.

Roland Beamont Peter Twiss John Derry Brian Trubshaw post WW2

JF and Bill Bedford in later years.

Barbara Harmer, who made the rt hand seat of Concorde overcoming all the obstacles on the way.

Then there is the men who got them off the ground, Sopwith, A V Roe, Handley Page, Chadwick, Barnes Wallace, R J Mitchell, Camm, Petter, and Johnson,
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