The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh (2 page)

Eddie Rickenbacker, known as “Captain Eddie,” 1918, stands beside his plane emblazoned with the Hat in the Ring squadron emblem
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Rickenbacker ca. 1903, approximately the time he quit school to help support his family
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The Rickenbacker home, built by Eddie’s father on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio
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Eddie Rickenbacker ca. 1915. By age twenty-one he was one of the top race car drivers in the United States
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Eddie and his future wife, Adelaide, in 1922
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In 1938 Rickenbacker bought Eastern Air Lines, which flew the innovative DC-3 and the Lockheed Electra pictured here
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Following a 1941 plane crash Rickenbacker was initially given up for dead
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Jimmy Doolittle as a young boy
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Jimmy and Joe Doolittle in 1918, shortly after their marriage
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Doolittle beside the Consolidated NY-2 he used for his famous “blind flying” experiment in 1929
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Doolittle flew the stubby Gee Bee to win the Thompson Trophy in 1932
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Jimmy and Joe Doolittle pose with the Vultee aircraft in which Doolittle set a transcontinental record in 1935
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh with his father, a U.S. congressman
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