#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific in 1937.
#WomenPilots #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart makes her last radio transmission as she and navigator Fred Noonan start a leg of their round the world flight. Contact was lost when they were over the Pacific and they were never found.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #HistoryOfFlight #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 21 June 1913, Georgia 'Tiny' Broadwick becomes the first woman to parachute from an airplane. She goes on to complete the first known premeditated freefall by anyone at all whilst training WW1 pilots on how to jump from planes.
Read more, and see one of her parachutes, at the Air and Space Museum.
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/georgia-%E2%80%9Ctiny%E2%80%9D-broadwicks-parachute
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #HistoryofFlight #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific in 1937.
#WomenPilots #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart makes her last radio transmission as she and navigator Fred Noonan start on their round the world flight. Contact was lost when they were over the Pacific and they were never found.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #HistoryOfFlight #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific ocean in 1937.
#WomenInHistory #WomenPilots #History #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #Histodons
My review of Nova: A Daring Flight – Aviation Exploits Beyond the Wright Brothers #DVDReview #EnglishChannel #historyofflight #LouisBleriot #Nova #PBS #PBSdocumentaries #WrightBrothers
While many of us grew up knowing the story of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, why that was such a remarkable feat is something we don’t always understand. Although not specifically about t…
#OnThisDay, 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart makes her last radio transmission as she and navigator Fred Noonan start on their round the world flight. Contact was lost when they were over the Pacific and they were never found.
#OnThisDay, 21 June 1913, Georgia 'Tiny' Broadwick becomes the first woman to parachute from an airplane. She goes on to complete the first known premeditated freefall by anyone at all whilst training WW1 pilots on how to jump from planes.
Read more, and see one of her parachutes, at the Air and Space Museum. https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/georgia-%E2%80%9Ctiny%E2%80%9D-broadwicks-parachute
#WomenInHistory #Histodons #HistoryOfFlight #Parachutes @histodons
"The air is the only place free of prejudices."
#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's licence, becoming the first licensed civilian African-American pilot in the world.
#WomenPilots #HigherFurtherFaster #WomenInHistory #Histodons #BlackHistory #HistoryOfFlight
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Patti Aliventi