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1784
Elisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly—in a hot
air balloon.
1798
Jeanne Labrosse is the first woman to solo in a balloon.
1809
Marie Madeleine Sophie Blanchard becomes the first woman to lose
her life while flying—she was watching fireworks in her
hydrogen balloon.
1880
Mary Myers is the first American woman to solo in a balloon
(July 4).
1903
Aida de Acosta is the first woman to solo in a dirigible.
1906
E. Lillian Todd is the first woman to design and build an
airplane, though it never flew.
1908
Madame Therese Peltier is the first woman to fly an airplane
solo.
1910
Baroness Raymonde de Laroche obtains a license from the Aero
Club of France, the first woman licensed in the world.
1910
Blanche Stuart Scott, without permission or knowledge of Glenn
Curtiss, the airplane’s owner and builder, removes a small
wood wedge and is able to get the airplane airborne—without
any flying lessons—thus becoming the first American woman to
pilot an airplane (September 2).
Bessica
Raiche’s flight qualifies her, for some, as the first woman
pilot in America—because some discount the flight of Scott as
accidental (October 13).
1911
Harriet Quimby becomes the first American woman licensed pilot
(August 11).
Harriet Quimby
becomes the first woman to fly at night (September 4).
1912
Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to pilot her own aircraft
across the English Channel (April 16).
1913
Alys McKey Bryant is the first woman pilot in Canada.
1916
Ruth Law sets two American records flying from Chicago to New
York.
1918
The U.S. Postmaster
General approves the appointment of Marjorie Stinson as the
first female airmail pilot.
1919
Ruth Law becomes the first person to fly air mail in the
Philippines.
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