Harriet Quimby

Harriet Quimby was an early American aviator and a movie screenwriter. In 1911, she was awarded a U.S. pilots certificate by the Aero Club of America, becoming the first woman to gain a pilots license in the United States. In 1912, she became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. Although Quimby lived only to the age of thirtyseven, she had a major influence upon the role of women in aviation.

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