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Jeopary Questions page 1992 - "PEN" PALS - TriviaBistro.com  THEN YOU GET THE WOMEN: Marriage to a star made this Kansas-born ... For the 2nd year in a row, Mrs. Aileen Saunders won this trans-continental air race...
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News Letter - Ninety-Nines  race. You have maintained that won derful record, for which all Ninety- .... year! Happy flying, always! Scholarship Offers More. Participation to ... hart medal by Mrs. Lucile M. Wright, ...... 1959 All - Women Transcontinental Air Race ... 2nd PlaceAero-Doc Kit ... 2 Qt. Liquid Heater Aileen Saunders (TAR 28) +12.00000.
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cAlewg tetteti - Ninety-Nines  Top row (left to right): Betty Lambert and Gina Pourneile, co-chairmen ... Watson, impound; Aileen Saunders, social and finance; Isabelle McCrae ... All-Woman Transcontinental. Air ... All-Woman's International. Air Race. Fort Myers, Fla., to. International Airport ... Gocken, Madelet at 23 years of age ..... We came in second.
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GIRLS ON THE GO-GO-GO - SI.com  It was a hectic week for women athletesin flying, swimming and track and field. ... lightplane upwind and the 14th annual All Woman Transcontinental Air Race was ... this year's derby was routed on a gently sweeping curve from Torrance, Calif., ... It was piloted by Mrs. Aileen Saunders of El Cajon, Calif. and June Douglas...
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Powder Puff Derby - Aerofiles  The first Women's Air Derby on August 13-20, 1929, was a transcontinental race as part of the National Air Races at Cleveland that was entered ... 1929 was also the year the Ninety-Nines women's aviation organization was born, which ... 1959, Lawrence MA, Spokane, 2470, Cessna 172, Aileen Saunders/Jerelyn Cassell.
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Amelia Earhart - Pilot - Biography.com  May 18, 2016 ... Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, mysteriously disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. .... the transatlantic fight, she set off on a successful solo flight across North America. ... In April 1935, Earhart flew solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City, and a month...
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List of Miss America titleholders - Wikipedia  Phyllis George, Miss America 1971  Vanessa L. Williams, Miss America 1984  Erika Harold, Miss America 2003  Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014  Miss America is an annual competition open to women from the United States between the ... Margaret Gorman was the first Miss America Pageant winner in 1921.
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Amelia Earhart | Frontiers of Flight Museum  In 1937, she set out in her Lockheed Electra with navigator Fred Noonan. ... On the last leg of their journey, radio contact was lost as they were flying to Howland Island ... Amelia Earhart's Electra 10E was a twin-engine, all-metal monoplane airliner ... Earhart was called Lady Lindy because her slim build and facial features...
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Finishing The Journey That Amelia Earhart Began - tribunedigital ...  January 19, 1997|By Sharon Honaker. ... Sixty years later, Linda Finch intends to recreate and finish that flight. ... drive, Finch, a pilot and businesswoman, will fly a vintage plane she restored in an around-the-world journey ... Finch will pilot a Lockheed Electra 10E, the same model Earhart flew, for her trip which will include...
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jeopardy/1333_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  1930 | Travelling 171 MPH in a Lockheed Vega, she set a record for women January 15, 1930 | Amelia Earhart. right: Joel. Wrong: Value: $100. Number: 2.
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Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B - National Air and Space Museum  On May 20-21, 1932, flying in this airplane, Earhart became the first woman (and the only ... She took off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Canada and landed 15 hours and 2,026 miles later in a field near Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
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American Airlines - Dictionnaires  American Airlines was first to cooperate with Fiorello LaGuardia to build an airport ... the first major airline to employ a female pilot when Bonnie Tiburzi was hired to fly .... The AA first officers saw hundreds of TWA captains maintain their captain ..... be retained for several years with the "Something special in the air" slogan).
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Baroness de Laroche - Early Birds of Aviation, Inc.  SHORT HISTORY OF BARONNE DE LA ROCHE by Dave Lam. The first woman to win her fixed wing pilot's license was the self-styled Baroness de la Roche...
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On This Day: Amelia Earhart Embarks on Solo Trans-Atlantic Flight  On May 20, 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland; she landed in ... which she completed her solo flight across the Atlantic, May 21, 1932, Derry, Ireland. ... first made headlines in 1928 when she became the first woman to cross the...
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Concorde: Barbara Harmer - First Woman To Fly Concorde  Dec 10, 2009 ... Barbara did not stop there, but became a flying instructor, working at her local ... Her first historic Concorde flight in 1993 qualified her as the first female ... From hairdresser to supersonic jet pilot  quite an accomplishment!
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Amelia Earhart Timeline - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society  After 10 hours instruction, she made her first solo flight. ... She published The Fun of It. 1932 - From May 20 - 21 flew solo across the Atlantic, the first woman to do so, in 13 hours, 30 minutesa new trans-Atlantic record. ... the Distinguished Flying Cross, and she received the gold medal of the National Geographic Society.
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Harriet Quimby was the first American woman to earn a pilot's ...  August 1, 1911: Harriet Quimby becomes the first American woman to earn a ... Matilde E. Moisant, the second American woman to get a pilot's license, 1912. .... the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) = Hubster's Aunt Jane was one of these...
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Basketball Star Maya Moore Makes History - Wins Honda-Broderick ...  The Collegiate Women Sports Awards today announced that Maya Moore, ... an athlete has won the Honda-Broderick Cup twice (swimmer Tracy Caulkins,1982 and ... The other two Top Three finalists for the 2011 award included distance ... She is the winner of the NCAA Elite 88 Award for achieving the highest GPA of all...
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Record-Setting Pioneers in the Golden Age of Aviation, 1919-39  Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928, ... Both had flown in World War One and had been POW's - Alcock by the Turks, Brown by ... The news of their flight spread quickly, and they received as heroes in London. ... The next year the Graf Zeppelin made another famous flight, the Europa-Pan American...
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Raymonde de LaRoche.jpg | 1910 | Pinterest  La Baronne de Laroche was a French pilot and the first woman in the world to receive an ..... In 1912 she became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. ...... liquidnight: Flying Schoolgirl and fourth certified lady pilot in the US, ..... November 19, 1916: Ruth Law sets a new distance record for cross-country flight...
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Timeline 1930  She claimed to have been visited by the Virgin Mary. (MC, 1/9/02) 1930 Jan 15, Amelia Earhart set an aviation record for women at 171 mph in a Lockheed Vega. ..... of the Aviation Division of Texaco, flew a red-and-white Travel Air monoplane from Los Angeles to New York in 12 hours, 25 minutes and 3 seconds.