Who is the greatest aviator of all time?

Aviation's short history is crowded with people who flew first, flew farthest or flew fastest. Rank the pilots whose names outlived their records.

1. 1
   Orville Wright

   Made the first controlled powered flight at Kitty Hawk on 17 December 1903, a hop of 12 seconds.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Jacqueline Cochran

   Held more speed, altitude and distance records than any pilot of her era and was the first woman to fly faster than sound.
   794pts
3. 3
   Charles Lindbergh

   Crossed the Atlantic alone and nonstop in 1927 in the Spirit of St. Louis, and became the most famous man alive.
   577pts
4. 4
   Amelia Earhart

   First woman to fly the Atlantic solo, in 1932, and the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to Oakland.
   333pts
5. 5
   Bessie Coleman

   Denied a licence in the United States, she qualified in France in 1921 as the first Black woman to hold a pilot's licence.
   333pts
6. 6
   Wilbur Wright

   The elder brother, who solved control before power and flew the longest of the four Kitty Hawk flights.
   227pts
7. 7
   Chuck Yeager

   Broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 on 14 October 1947 with two ribs freshly cracked.
   227pts
8. 8
   Yuri Gagarin

   A fighter pilot before he became the first human in space in 1961.
   227pts
9. 9
   Neil Armstrong

   A test pilot who flew the X-15 to the edge of the atmosphere long before he walked on the Moon.
   227pts