Edgar Mitchell

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

American Astronaut

Waris Ahluwalia

I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can't go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on them occasionally, but I always go back to the aviators.

American Designer

Emily Weiss

I have long been of the mindset that aviators are like leather jackets - when they're perfect, they give you 'instant cool.' They're the Alexa Chung of sunglasses.

American Businesswoman

Buzz Aldrin

My father's an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on the flight, I still enjoyed it, I believe.

Duane G. Carey

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

Keren Woodward

We got a gay following around the time we started using camp dancers who were stripped to the waist in cycling shorts and aviators.

English Musician

Milo Ventimiglia

I was either going to be an actor, a Naval aviator, or a pediatric surgeon. Those were the three things that I wanted to do.

American Actor

Alan Shepard

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

Jim Lovell

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

James Rosenquist

The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.

American Artist

The term 'aviator' is not gender-specific; it refers to any pilot regardless of their gender.

Gender Neutral

'Aviator' carries a sense of history and prestige, often associated with pioneers of aviation.

Historic Prestige

Sometimes 'aviator' can also refer to a person involved in the design and development of aircraft.

Not Only Pilots

 Audiences would see glamorous actresses and actors donning glasses to take on a different persona. Sometimes a pair of glasses became popularized by the actual person that was wearing them, and then that personality trait was projected into the actual device. You had the aviator glasses,

The function and fashion...

 amelia's young adult life was filled with finding that purpose in action she left home in search of adventure working as a nurse during world war one in canada there she got to know a new group of adventurers aviators and her lifelong fascination with flying began