Its real name is "Airport Enrico Forlanini", after the Italian inventor and aeronautical pioneer born in Milan.

With his father, the aeronautical pioneer Charles Dollfus, he holds several world records in ballooning, including the first stratospheric flight in France.

He was deeply influenced by the great aeronautical pioneers of the day, notably Kingsford-Smith and Ulm, whose epic flights in the southern hemisphere shone like the target indicators he was to introduce years later over Germany.

Ludwig Bölkow (June 30, 1912 - July 25, 2003) was one of the aeronautical pioneers of Germany.

He also received the Smithsonian Institution's Langley Award, which is bestowed only on leading aeronautical pioneers.

As he was an aeronautical pioneer before the war, he was transferred in to the newly formed Serbian Royal Air Force.

May 31 - Alphonse Pénaud, French aeronautical pioneer (d. 1880)

Gertrude Bacon (April 19, 1874 - December 22, 1949) was an aeronautical pioneer.

The aeronautical pioneers in the nineteenth century were constrained by the lack of a lightweight power source.

Patrick Young Alexander (28 March 1867 - 7 July 1943) was a British aeronautical pioneer fascinated by the prospect of heavier-than-air flight.