{"id":42421,"date":"2011-04-15T11:50:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=42421"},"modified":"2011-04-15T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:51:32","slug":"featured-project-great-aviators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/featured-project-great-aviators-42421.html","title":{"rendered":"Featured Project: Great Aviators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we feature the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/projects\/Great-Aviators\">Great Aviators<\/a> project. In this project are some of the most notable aviators in history. There are currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/projects\/people\/Great-Aviators\">36 profiles<\/a> included. Perhaps you may want to add more great aviators to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/\">Geni<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at a few of the profiles included:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Howard-Hughes-Jr\/6000000002447355588\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"howard hughes\" src=\"http:\/\/assets3.geni.com\/media\/p10\/a8\/6c\/9c\/ce\/534448382f8f21e3\/Howard_Hughes_t2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Howard-Hughes-Jr\/6000000002447355588\">Howard Hughes<\/a> &#8211; He was an American aviator, engineer, film producer, philanthropist and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He set multiple world air-speed records and built the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hughes_H-4_Hercules\">Spruce Goose<\/a>,&#8221; the largest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flying_boat\">flying boat<\/a> ever constructed, with the largest wingspan of any aircraft in history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Amelia-Earhart\/6000000002447374242\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Amelia Earhart\" src=\"http:\/\/assets3.geni.com\/media\/p12\/d1\/d8\/b6\/02\/53444838629bc827\/AE-medal_t2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Amelia-Earhart\/6000000002447374242\">Amelia Earhart<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0Earhart was an aviation pioneer and author. She set numerous aviation records, including being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. In 1937 while attempting to circumnavigate the globe, Earhart mysteriously disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Orville-Wright\/6000000009442437774\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Orville Wright\" src=\"http:\/\/assets3.geni.com\/media\/p5\/2175\/1519\/53444836765b4919\/Orville_Wright_t2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Orville-Wright\/6000000009442437774\">Orville Wright<\/a> &#8211; Orville and his brother <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Wilbur-Wright\/6000000009441943146\">Wilbur<\/a> are credited with the inventing and building the world&#8217;s first successful airplane. On December 17, 1903 the brothers succeeded in making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Beryl-Markham\/6000000011998963563\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Beryl Markham\" src=\"http:\/\/assets2.geni.com\/media\/p13\/77\/8d\/75\/52\/53444838b78e4d8e\/beryl2_t2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/>Beryl Markham<\/a> &#8211; She was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Charles-A-Lindbergh\/6000000003681533871\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Charles Lindbergh\" src=\"http:\/\/assets3.geni.com\/user_photos\/43\/45\/99\/f4\/120121\/434599f4f6747e3b_t2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/>Charles Lindbergh<\/a> &#8211; Known as &#8220;Lucky Lindy&#8221; and &#8220;The Lone Eagle,&#8221; Lindbergh gained notoriety for making the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic from New York to Paris, France.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/projects\/Great-Aviators\">View the Great Aviators Project<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we feature the Great Aviators project. In this project are some of the most notable aviators in history. There are currently 36 profiles included. Perhaps you may want to add more great aviators to Geni! Here&#8217;s a look at a few of the profiles included: Howard Hughes &#8211; He was an American aviator, engineer, film producer, philanthropist and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He set multiple world air-speed records and built&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/featured-project-great-aviators-42421.html\"><span>Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-project"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}