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| LASTWOODSMAN | Scratch Built Curtiss Pusher | Parked | 26-Jan-17 11:26 |  | | Views : 875 | | Katherine Stinson - "The Flying Schoolgirl" |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Scratch Built Curtiss Pusher | Parked | 26-Jan-17 11:24 |  | | Views : 827 | | REMEMBERING KATHERINE STINSON She was the first woman to fly air mail in the US, and in Canada, she was the first person, man or woman, to deliver mail between Calgary and Edmonton. She set many records - Dec 11, 1917 she flew 610 miles non-stop friom San Diego to San Francisco in a record 9 hrs and 10 min. She was always a supporter of the Women's Suffragette movement and equal rights for women. In 1917 she became a Red Cross Ambulance Driver in Europe, where she contracted Influenza in the waning months of WW1, which later turned into Tuberculosis in 1920 and she had to enter a Sanitarium. This also ended her glorious, short-lived flying career, as she was too frail to fly anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-RL4Gu07J4 |
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