Mihailo Merćep (Dubrovnik, 1864 - Belgrade 1937), Serb flight pioneer.

Lyman Gilmore was in contact with other flight pioneers like Samuel Langley and, eventually, the Wright brothers.

Adorning the walls of the glider room are portraits and photographs of other flight pioneers throughout history.

Edvard Rusjan (6 June 1886 - 9 January 1911) was an Italo-Slovenian flight pioneer and airplane constructor.

For centuries, early flight pioneers tried to achieve this very feat by attaching artificial wings to their arms and backs.

Paul Haenlein (17 October 1835 in Cologne - 27 January 1905 in Mainz) was a German engineer and flight pioneer.

Rubber powered model aircraft inspired a whole generation of future flight pioneers, including the Wright brothers who were given them as toys when children.

He was a contemporary of Jean-Marie Le Bris, another French flight pioneer who was active in the same region of France.

However, most early glider designs did not fulfill safe flight, largely because early flight pioneers did not understand the underlying principles that made a bird's wing work.

Hermann Köhl, (15 April 1888-7 October 1938), German flight pioneer.