2007-12-17 09:00:48 · 19 answers · asked by digital_punk007 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
As far as the Emelia Earhart answers, as far as I can tell she went missing around the age of 40 so cant have been flying that long. And Howard Hughes had a license according to wikipedia
2007-12-17 09:05:31 · update #1
As far as the Amelia Earhart answers, as far as I can tell she went missing around the age of 40 so cant have been flying that long. And Howard Hughes had a license according to wikipedia
2007-12-17 09:07:33 · update #2
charles lindbergh?
2007-12-17 09:03:39 · answer #1 · answered by Dan M 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I suspect that the answer you're looking for is Orville Wright, but this question-and-answer pair are kind of misleading.
The United States' Civil Aviation Authority (the CAA, predecessor to today's FAA) was formed by the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act, and in 1940 it issued "Honorary Aircraft Pilot Certificate Number 1" to Orville Wright. (See first link below.) Some people interpret this to mean that he flew from 1900 until 1940 without a license, but this is inaccurate.
There were actually pilot's licenses before 1940. Long before that, the first licenses in the United States were actually issued by the Aero Club of America (which was a founding member of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, both organizations being founded in 1905). Orville held license number 04. (See the second link below.) He was also the Chairman of the Aero Club for a time, and because of that many early licenses bear his signature. The Aero Club of America became the National Aeronautic Association in 1922, and continued to issue licenses until the Air Commerce Act of 1926. (Third link below.)
The 1926 Air Commerce Act gave the Department of Commerce the authority (and responsibility) for testing and licensing pilots. (See fourth link for more detail.) When the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce took over in 1927, they offered the first government-issued license to Orville, but he was no longer an active pilot, so he declined. (See fifth link below.)
Anyway, the story goes around that he had no license before 1940, but as you can see, that's not quite accurate.
It's also possible, of course, that the quiz has someone else in mind, but the Orville myth is the one I've run into most commonly.
2007-12-18 00:37:18 · answer #2 · answered by Grammar=Fun 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Charlie 'Red' Jenson started taking lessons at 16 and I can't find anything to say he didn't have a license. He flew water bombers including the Avenger that is now at the bow end of the hanger deck on USS Hornet.
Not Orville Wright either, he had license No. 1. Ah, Grammar may have it, I couldn't read the date on the jpeg :D
Trick question? You don't need to be a pilot to fly on an aircraft.
2007-12-18 00:30:08 · answer #3 · answered by Chris H 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Amelia Earhart?
2007-12-17 17:11:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Birds?
Amelia Earhart?
Howard Hughes?
2007-12-17 17:02:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
ohw about Charles a Lindburgh, he flew in the army right after the great war, but that soesn't mean he was issued a license to fly publicly....he flew mail in the beginning og of the airmail era also?????
2007-12-17 20:06:22 · answer #6 · answered by phaselman01@snet.net 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What about the Wright Brothers? How long did they fly for. Because they invented the airplane there were no pilots licenses back then.
2007-12-17 20:10:03 · answer #7 · answered by flyguy03 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
RED JENSEN http://wzus.ask.com/r?t=p&d=us&s=a&c=a&l=dir&o=333&ld=2709&sv=0a300523&ip=45004991&id=50A436F8CC0AED187BDBC9800FD37886&q=Who+Flew+for+over+Forty+Years+without+a+License%3F&p=1&qs=6&ac=34&g=3263%dkYantZ50&en=te&io=2&ep=&eo=&b=alg&bc=&br=&tp=d&ec=10&pt=Dale%3A%20We%20had%20about%20five%20or%20six%20airplanes%20all%20together...&ex=&url=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.airtanker.com%2Fhistory%2Fnolta.htmlEN FROM CALIFORNIA
2007-12-17 18:33:01 · answer #8 · answered by MIGHTY MINNIE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freddy Laker?
Reminds me of the old Muhammed Ali story when he got a flight back in the sixties... when he really was the most beautiful person on the planet!
As the plane taxied, the female flight attendant reminded him to buckle up his seat belt. "Superman don't need no seat belt" Ali replied...."Superman don't need no airplane neither!" said the attendant! Ali told this story often.
2007-12-17 17:03:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Amelia Earhart, probably.
I'm pretty sure women weren't allowed in pilot school back then.
2007-12-17 17:03:18 · answer #10 · answered by J.Fred. 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
That woman who went missing.Amelia Rheinhat or something like.Got me thinking now.No it wasn't.It was a female German
pilot who was Hitlers fav.She tested all their planes.She flew out
of Berlin when the Russians we're in and Hitler would'nt go with
her.Can't remember name.
2007-12-17 17:03:46 · answer #11 · answered by angler 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋