Before Martin Marietta merged with Lockheed, Joe had an office down the hall
from me. He is a great story teller and has more angles than a protractor.
He started up a flying business at Orlando execuitve Airport working, in part,
with Rosie O'Grady's Flying Circus. He would do skywriting and ballooning
and no doubt made tons of money.
As for other important aviators, the list is very long but here are some to start
you off: Scott Crossfield (died last year), Bob Champine, Mel Gough, Jack Reeder, Herb Hoover, Homer "Lee" Person, "Slick" Goodlin...