Check out this super cool photo! Waldo Waterman drove his Chevy Bird to the San Diego 200th Anniversary Air Show in 1969, at 75 years of age. Can you believe it? He was a real aviation pioneer. Waterman started to build a glider when he was 14 years old in 1909. He even achieved his first successful flight down a canyon near his house in San Diego that same year! In 1912, he enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley to study engineering and then became head of the University's Department of Flight Theory and Military Aeronautics. Additionally, he served as the chief engineer for the U.S. Aircraft Corporation. In 1929, he built the Waterman Whatsit, the first tailless flying-wing monoplane in this country, and the first plane to use the modern version of the tricycle landing gear. Waterman was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame in 1968.