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#OnThisDay, 17 Apr 1964, Jerrie Mock touches down in Ohio to become the first woman to fly solo around the world. Press coverage of the time made much of her being a “housewife”. 🙄
Watch a newsreel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Pz2zGZ3To
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Woman Flies Solo Around The World (1964)
Unissued / Unused Material -Title reads: "News Of Flight - Housewife Circles The Globe Alone". American voiceovered newsreel material.Oakland, California, Un...YouTube
#OnThisDay, 16 Apr 1912, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel.
Quimby was the first American woman to receive a pilot’s licence and made her living doing exhibition flights in the US. She also made money as the advertising face of a grape juice. She died in July 1912 when her plane pitched forward at 1,000 feet and she was thrown out.
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