Elsie MacGill was the first woman in the world to earn a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering (1929).

The "Queen of the Hurricanes" was a pioneering Canadian aircraft designer who led production of the Hawker Hurricane fighter planes during #WWII. She was born #OTD in 1905.

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