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Bandwagon, November 1964 - Circus Historical Society  Many a canvas or prop man was told by her to first go wash his face and ... Twenty-five men were in Sarasota quarters preparing the equipment with .... The Queen of the Air", from Venezuela presenting her sensational hair spin ...... Antoinette Concello on the fly-traps, Ala Naito on the wire, and Lillian Lietzel on the rings.
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the sensational tito gaona and his spectacular aerial flights - SI.com  Could Tito Gaona of The Flying Gaonas really be the greatest of all acrobats? ... section he was asked if he much minded playing make-believe games and being in dress-up parades. ... The triple somersault has been the most mystical trick of the trapeze, the one that over the ..... Antoinette Concello is now in her early 60s.
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15 Phenomenal Female Circus Performers | Mental Floss  Feb 22, 2016 ... Four days later she returned, making the treacherous crossing again, ... He happily joined her family's business, helping in promotions and ... The pair married in 1928, and formed The Flying Concellos. ... being the first woman to ever pull off a triple somersault in the air. .... Lillian Leitzel - Queen of the Air!
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Bandwagon, March 1964 - Circus Historical Society  The fire-fighting equipment included two large electrically driven centrifugal ..... the Ringling-Barnum circus before her death in the menagerie fire at Cleveland, Ohio, ..... who highlighted the display when she accomplished a double somersault to ..... Photo right: Antoinette Concello, the "Queen of the Flying Trapeze," in a...
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jeopardy/1267_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE CIRCUS | Antoinette Concello's triple somersault helped make her the "Queen of" this "flying" apparatus | trapeze. right: Sahir. Wrong: Value: $400.
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Ruth Law. Bought her first airplane from Orville Wright in 1912 at ...  Ruth Law. 1st Plane bought from Orville Wright in 1921. 1st women ... before a large crowd at Daytona Beach in 1915, she performed two "loop the loops for the ..... fighter pilot of all time, has been the subject of many books, films and other media. ...... Katherine Stinson, the flying schoolgirl, and her plane in Brooklyn after...
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She Flies Like a Girl | Jacquie Warda is a daredevil in the cockpit. By ...  One thing Warda is passionate about is hanging out after her performances to talk ... "Because there are so few women doing what we do, we inspire other women to be great," says Warda. ... It's pretty high risk, so we don't do anything that's unknown. ... Those things, no matter what I call them, they're all going to be unique...
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Cochran, Jacqueline - National Aviation Hall of Fame: National ...  Received the Harmon Trophy in 1950 as the Aviatrix of the Decade. In 1953, she became the first woman to exceed the speed of sound. In 1962, subsequently...
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The Convair XFY Pogo tailsitter was an experiment in vertical takeoff ...  Convair XFY-1 Pogo, the first VTOL plane to successfully transition from ... "Flying Flapjack" World War II United States Navy fighter aircraft program. ..... On 13 December 1985, a X-29 became the first forward-swept wing aircraft to .... It has the ability to perform much of a helicopter's work with fixed-wing economy and range.
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jeopardy/3207_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  QUE SARAH, SARAH | In the tradition of "The Little Engine That Could", this royal wrote about a little helicopter named Budgie | Sarah Ferguson. right: Kate.
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Women in Aviation and Space History - Smithsonian National Air ...  Commemorating the contributions of women to aviation and space flight history. ... after Charles Lindbergh  to fly nonstop and solo across the Atlantic Ocean. ... Though Earhart was the most famous woman pilot, she was not the most skilled. ... Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland,...
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Flying with Foy - RIDE  Foy returned to fly Mary Martin's Peter Pan when the musical version premiered in 1954. For this show, he created a new system known as the Inter-Related Pendulum. ... The Inter-Related Pendulum made spectacular, highly controlled free flight ... he has revolutionized methods and techniques used in stage flying that had...
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Jacqueline Cochran | General Chuck Yeager  The woman who would earn the title First Lady of Flight did so and then some. ... a day, six days a week in a Georgia cotton mill where she earned 6 cents an hour. ... her early years forged in Jackie an iron-clad resolve that would become the ... business, Floyd remarked casually that she would need wings to do all that.
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Jeopary Questions page 1729 - HISTORIC WOMEN - TriviaBistro.com  SCIENCE: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports) The spin of a frisbee keeps it stable in flight, illustrating angular this  MASTERPIECE THEATRE: Daniel Radcliffe,...
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Jeopary Questions page 2213 - "AA" - TriviaBistro.com  AVIATION: Named "the aviatrix of the decade" in 1950, in 1953 she became the first woman to break the sound barrier  U.S. AREAS: Part of this U.S. area is...
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First Hot-Air Balloon | The Greatest Moments in Flight - Space.com  Jul 16, 2012 ... The Montgolfier brothers launched the first flight of a hot-air balloon in ... in 1783 when two brothers demonstrated their invention, the hot-air ... The flight lasted 8 minutes and was witnessed by King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette,...
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Free Flashcards about FIRSTS - StudyStack  IN 1930 ELLEN CHURCH WAS FLYING HIGH AS THE FIRST WOMAN TO SERVE THE AIRLINES IN THIS CAPACITY, STEWARDESS. MICKEY MOUSE...
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1 The Harfang Chronicle - Hip Pocket Aeronautics  The 26 year old woman had decided to fly over the Andes in a. Caudron G3, powered ... created Caudron flying school, in Nov 1919. ... Only seven had succeeded: Lieutenant Luis C. Candelaria (Argentinean) did it from East to West on April 13th. 1918, with ... first hand the up and down gusts present in mountains. The G3.
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jeopardy/1502_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  This first lady from VA. called "Patsy" had serious coin, but she dressed so simply people took her for the maid | Martha Washington ..... Sarah of the Clue Crew reports with a paper airplane in her hand.) If a plane goes virtually straight up, what's called the angle of this, between the wing and airflow, is close to 0 | attack. right:.
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Apr 30, 2012 ... #152490 Apr 30, 2012. Alan Thicke wrote: ` The first free-fall jump using one of these devices was from a damaged airplane in 1922. parachute.
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Five facts you didn't know about the young Amelia Earhart  Jan 14, 2014 ... You probably know the story of Amelia Earhart: female pilot, first woman to fly ... It wasn't talent that made her who she was, it was hard work. ... Amelia built her own rollercoaster in her back yard," Meltzer says. "She was a daredevil. She used a wooden packing box and roller skate wheels, then leaned two...