aviation history

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• 7/7/19
  

  Flight Girls: Remembering World War 2's Women Airforce Service Pilots

  by Noelle Salazar 

  "I was stunned by anecdotes of bravery, death and outright misogyny. And I was baffled the subjects of these stories had tried to be heard, but still, seventy-seven years later, for the most part were unknown to the greater public."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/8/19
  

  Celebrating the First Trans-Atlantic Flight. No, It Wasn’t Lindbergh’s.

  A Navy seaplane flew from Queens to the Azores in 1919, eight years before the Spirit of St. Louis. It took three weeks. It was not nonstop.

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• SOURCE: Air & Space Magazine
  Accessed 4/2/19
  

  A family photo album illuminates a landmark in aviation history

  by Marc Wortman

  The First Airplane to Cross an Ocean

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/2/19
  

  She made history as a Navy pilot. An all-female squadron just flew over her funeral.

  Capt. Rosemary Mariner, who died Jan. 24, broke barriers throughout her career, opening doors for other women.