she was already known as the ‘Queen of Diamonds’, but American socialite Mabel Boll wanted to become the ‘Queen of the Air’ instead. Caught by the transatlantic fever, while in […]
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Bessie Coleman
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Freeport’s ‘Flying Flapper’ remembered – aviatrix Elinor Smith gets me-morialized with a historical marker
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Ita Rina was pretty fly
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Dressed fit to fly – Anita Page, Metro-Goldywn-Mayer player, shows six correct costumes for aviation. You may wear a pair of linen trousers with brown boots and a brown leather […]
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Gladys O’Donnell with her two children after returning home to Long Beach, California, September 1930 O’Donnell won the Women’s Air Derby, flying 2,250 miles to Chicago in just over 15 hours.
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Chinese Aviatrix receives gift of new plane from Col Roscoe Turner. Washington, DC, April 3, 1939. Col. Roscoe Turner, winner of speed trophies in the air, dropped down to Washington […]
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Ruth Elder (September 8, 1902 – October 9, 1977)
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Elinor Smith (August 17, 1911 – March 19, 2010), bottom with Helen Hicks in Farmingdale, NY [1929?]
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Amelia Earhart (July 24, 1897 – disappeared 1937), Women’s Air Derby, Santa Monica, California, July 12, 1929