Imagine That!

by Roland Foster

         
         
         
         
           
         
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A.   First to fly across the US in a single day; first
to do an outside loop; first to make an instruments-only flight in zero visibility conditions. (2)

B.   Lustrously rainbow-like

C.   Bosom friend (slang)

D.   Despite the fact that

E.   First to fly solo around the world (2)

F.   Notoriety

G.   First to fly across the English Channel (2)

H.   Every bit (3)

I.   Questionable

J.   Hawkeye (2)

K.   Ninth Hannukkah candle

L.   First to fly nonstop across the Atlantic (3)

M.   Spirit duplicator (2)

N.   John Carradine declaration (4)

O.   Winner of the X Prize

P.   Part that operates engine valves

Q.   First to make a sustained, powered, controlled,
heavier-than-air flight (2)

R.   Maximum degree

S.   First to fly over the South Pole (2)

T.   Valve

U.   Big bird

V.   First to fly faster than sound (2)

W.   Early glider developer, fatally injured in 1896
when one of his gliders stalled at an altitude of 50 feet (2)

X.   What Johnny Mercer urged you to eliminate

Y.   First to fly solo, nonstop, across the Atlantic (2)

Z.   Get emotional

AA.   (With "A") Sidney Poitier film (4)

AB.   First to walk on the moon (2)

AC.   Land between Balboa and Cristobal (3)

AD.   Sunset to sunrise

AE.   The "father of naval aviation" (2)

AF.   Flooded

AG.   Grounds for academic failure, sometimes

AH.   Designer of Answer O and other "first" craft (2)

AI.   Stop

AJ.   Polly`s injunction to Tom (3)

AK.   At another location (1, 2, or hyph.)

AL.   First to fly nonstop around the world without refuelling
(3)

AM.   Extended duration

AN.   One of the two things Franklin allowed was "certain"

AO.   First to disappear while attempting to fly around
the world (2)

AP.   Something pilots must be able to do

AQ.   Zoroastrian, for example

AR.   Shock

AS.   Marred by interference

AT.   Waiting in the wings

AU.   First to die in a heavier-than-air plane crash (2)

AV.   Creator of the first dirigible (2)

AW.   Old farmer`s vowels (5)

AX.   Property measured in ohms per centimeter

AY.   "Smooth" lava

BZ.   Like a darkroom (hyph.)

.   Purple quartz

.   Money student or collector

.   Opinion article

.   First US President to fly (2)