3. A pioneer of aviation in both
helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
He designed and flew the world's
first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft,
in 1913, and the first airliner,, in 1914.
5. Ukrainian-born physicist, inventor
and patriot who has been championed
for inventing a device for determining
the mechanical equivalent of heat and
as an early developer of the use
of X-rays for medical imaging
7. He was the head Soviet rocket engineer
and designer during the Space Race
between the United States and
the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.
He is considered by many as
the father of practical astronautics.[