#OnThisDay, 17 Mar 1964, Joan Merriam Smith set off from Oakland airport in California in an attempt to fly solo around the world. She followed Amelia Earhart’s easterly route from 1937 as far as New Guinea where Earhart had vanished.

Merriam Smith arrived back in Oakland on 12 May 1964, the first pilot to successfully make a solo circumnavigation by the equatorial route.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenPilots #AmericanHistory #WomensHistoryMonth

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#OnThisDay, 3 Feb 1995, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle on a mission when she took the helm of #Discovery. She would go on to become the first woman to command a Shuttle.

#WomenInSpace #WomenPilots #WomenInHistory #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

July 2, 1937: Amelia Earhart vanishes over the Pacific. Her final transmission: "We are on the line 157–337." 88 years later, the mystery persists. New expeditions may finally reveal what happened to aviation's greatest pioneer.
https://theurb.co/amelia-earhart-mystery

#AmeliaEarhart #AviationHistory #UnsolvedMystery #TrueStory #History #Mystery #Aviation #FemaleAviation #WomenInAviation #HistoricalMystery #LegendaryWomen #Pilot #FeministIcon #AviationMystery #WomenPilots #ColdCase

#OnThisDay, 25 Aug 1932, Amelia Earhart successfully lands in Newark, New Jersey, to become the first woman to fly solo across the USA.

Earhart records a series of first flights by a woman, before disappearing during an attempt to fly around the world in 1937.

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#OnThisDay, 1 Aug 1911, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman licensed as a pilot in the US. She goes on to be the first woman to fly across the English Channel the following year.

https://carvehername.org.uk/bessie-coleman-and-other-early-american-aviators/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenPilots #Histodons

"When Salote Mataitini first dreamed of becoming a pilot, she was a child reading newspaper articles about aviators, long before iPhones or social media.
Today, Mataitini lives out her lifelong dream.
She is a captain with Air Kiribati, flying across one of the world's largest ocean states and inspiring the next generation of Pacific aviators."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/563364/the-kiribat-pilot-inspiring-the-next-generation-of-pacific-aviators

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#OnThisDay, 17 Mar 1964, Joan Merriam Smith set off from Oakland airport in California in an attempt to fly solo around the world. She followed Amelia Earhart’s easterly route from 1937 as far as New Guinea where Earhart had vanished.

Merriam Smith arrived back in Oakland on 12 May 1964, the first pilot to successfully make a solo circumnavigation by the equatorial route.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenPilots #AmericanHistory #WomensHistoryMonth

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