First to survive passing the sound barrier. Other pilots had broken the barrier but lost control because the air surfaces behave differently at supersonic speeds. Indeed, the British pulled out of the efforts because pilot fatality levels were too high. People were going faster than sound, but none lived to tell the tale.

(In a very bitter twist to the tale, once Chuck Yeager had broken the sound barrier the Brits replicated the feat several times only to have their test plane disintegrate over a large crowd at an air show when decelerating, causing considerable casualties on the ground as well as the death of the pilot and the loss of about the only supersonic airframe in the UK at the time.)

Maps, even today, are horribly inaccurate at times. Back then, it was far far worse, with cartographers rarely sanity-checking the work and frequently copying from older maps without verifying them. When it came to remote islands, it was a disaster.

I posted elsewhere to a response on someone googling and rating fame by google returns that the Red Baron is well in the lead on the fame stakes, Amelia would be second and Bruce Dickenson (fully qualified pilot, takes the band on Eddy Force One and used to fly Boeings for a small airline) comes in third. Amy Johnson is a surprising fifth by this rather dubious metric.

The Red Baron gets 7.7 million returns. Amy Johnson gets a shade under 1.2 million. Steve Fossett gets a pathetic 430,000. Bruce Dickenson gets 5.5 million. (Hey, he's a pilot and he's famous!) Quotes used in all cases.

So I'd have to say Manfred is the most famous, Amelia is second, Bruce "Air Raid Siren" Dickenson third, Charles fourth and Amy comes in fifth, based on the names and totals listed.

Snoopy is the nickname given to Roy Brown, who was famous for shooting down and killing the Red Baron. This was played on by a cartoonist in the US, but ultimately the history is much more interesting.

It'd be closer to asking about Amy Johnson (first British aviator to fly solo from Britain to Australia, killed in WW2 in a night-time air mission over London - not sure on specifics), Elisabeth Thible (first woman balloonist) or Jeana Yeager (one of the two crew of Voyager in the first round-the-world non-stop non-refueling flight).

Amelia Earhart also did extremely well in aviation racing worldwide, she wasn't just a US kid.

ReiserFS works extremely well on small files, so I like using it for /tmp. I would use it for /etc, /usr/share and /usr/man as well, but I've had problems where it has corrupted the FS. I can afford to lose /tmp, but /etc is another matter. If I felt safer with it, I'd consider ResierFS to be near-obligatory for any directory in which short files were the norm.

(More partitions is no big deal with gparted-style partition tables. More than 6 partitions was more of a bother under the MSDOS-style partition tables. The overheads are a pain, but in some case the space efficiency of specialist FS' in their niche will cover this. In other cases, the speed improvement is worth the space penalty, especially on modern drives.)

Btrfs is promising but the repair tools have been promised for a very long time and I'm beginning to think that Oracle might try to recover the cost of development by charging for "professional-quality tools" in the same way as is done for MOSIX. (I can sympathize with the MOSIX stance as anyone building a large cluster probably has spare cash.) Oracle has done something along these lines with MySQL and I don't trust them to not do the same anywhere they can.

ZFS has its own niche - it essentially folds hardware RAID, LVM and a logging filesystem into one unit, with tight integration and resulting efficiency gains, but being run in userspace does harm most/all of those gains. With work, though, it could be made into an excellent filesystem where you need that kind of dynamic - such as for database work, or software development. You can't predict in such cases what the final requirements will be and migration is a major headache.

The P9000 filesystem is fascinating and may well be great in certain clustered environs. There are other clustered filesystems but I'm beginning to think Lustre has lost its way, POHLFS has recently been reinvented and can't be regarded as stable yet, Gluster hasn't been heard of for a while and the "top" commercial cluster FS for Linux (Polyserve Filesystem) died when HP bought the company owning it, with suspicions of murder. The field is a bit of a mess.

She claims to be an attorney, but others have posted that no research so far conducted can find evidence that she has ever been licensed as such or is currently entitled to act as such. If, as seems possible given the evidence so far, she is not an attorney at all but a fraud, then Texas' bar should be considering legal action on those grounds and the State should consider pulling her business license as it is presumably a violation of the terms and conditions of such a license.

If she actually IS an attorney, then she's either incompetent (which should be a debarring offense) OR she is knowingly using threats of a lawsuit for the purpose of intimidating an innocent party to perform specific actions for the benefit of the accuser (I believe this may fall under the terms of "Demands With Menaces", which is a criminal offense). Neither of these would look good on her resume and I hope both the bar and the State Justice Department examine the issue.

It's couched in deliberately vague terms that would make a libel charge against her difficult to stick, given the level of protection of free speech and the lack of specific direct accusations ("merely" insinuations, which are just as toxic). This is precisely the sort of case where cyberbullying laws would be useful, where weasel-wording makes it difficult to prove the kind of harm needed in other lawsuits.

(Actually, it would be better yet if the US went back to involuntarily committing people who were mentally unsafe in public.)