#Harriet Quimby

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Harriet Quimby (1875-1912) First US Woman Pilot

Quimby was the first woman to receive a US pilot’s license, issued by the Aero Club of America in 1911. The following year, she was the first woman to fly across the English Channel. But unfortunately, she got little media attention for her accomplishment since it occurred the day after the Titanic sank. 

Quimby competed in races and flying meets, always drawing a crowd. Like many early aviatrixes, Quimby capitalized on her popularity with the press, who nicknamed her the “China Doll.” Quimby was also a well-known Hollywood screenwriter. 

Unfortunately, she died less than a year after getting her pilot’s license in an incident at a Boston aviation meet. 

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

By Rachel Hartigan

Published: 9 March 2023

The history of the first women who flew is a tale of breathtaking bravery and lives cut tragically short.

On 8 March 1910 — 113 years ago today — Raymonde de Laroche, a former Parisian stage actress, became the first licensed female pilot in the world.

Nine years later, she was killed when the experimental aircraft she was flying dove into the ground.

Harriet Quimby, a well-known journalist, became the first American woman to obtain a pilot’s license in 1911.

She died a year later when her new plane pitched her into Boston Harbor.

In 1921, Bessie Coleman was the first Black woman to receive a pilot’s license — she had to travel to France to find a flight school that would teach her.

But five years later, she was killed when a wrench got caught in her plane’s controls, sending the plane plummeting.  

Flying was perilous in aviation’s earliest days.

"The planes were flimsy contraptions fashioned from bamboo, wire and fabric,” according to the late historian Eileen Lebow.

They didn’t have seat belts or even a roof to hold the pilot should the aircraft flip over.

Yet women like Laroche, Quimby and Coleman were willing to risk their lives for the freedom that flights promised.

“Aviation was a new profession seemingly free from the gender expectations and sex typing that limited women elsewhere,” noted historian Susan Ware at the National Air and Space Museum’s inaugural Amelia Earhart Lecture in Aviation History in 2022.

“Women were getting in at the beginning.”

For many of them, the thrill of flying was intoxicating but so was the opportunity to be assessed on their own merits.

“These women wanted to be judged as human beings rather than as women,” says Ware.

Coleman especially saw flight as a path toward broader gender and racial equality.

"I knew we had no aviators, neither men nor women, and I knew the Race needed to be represented along this most important line,” she said shortly after she returned to the United States from France in 1921.

“I thought it my duty to risk my life to learn aviating and to encourage flying among men and women of the Race who are so far behind.”

Before she died, she’d planned to open a flight school that would welcome African American aviators.

Many early women fliers shared the dream that achievement in this field would lead to more independence.

As one journalist and amateur pilot wrote in 1930, “A woman who can find fulfillment in the skies will never again need to live her life in some man’s spare moments.”

Some of that independence would come from the ease of travel that aviation promised in its earliest incarnation.

Many people, including Amelia Earhart, believed at first that airplanes would become as commonly owned by families as bicycles and automobiles already had.

Other women embraced the financial independence that they thought the new field would offer.

Neta Snook, whose first solo flight was in a plane she rebuilt, made her living by offering up her plane for aerial advertising, test flying experimental aircraft, taking paying passengers up for aerial tours, and teaching beginning fliers, including Earhart.

Gladys Roy, on the other hand, earned good money as a stunt pilot, dancing the Charleston and playing tennis on the wings midflight for amazed crowds at air shows.

(Snook retired from aviation when she became pregnant in her mid-twenties and lived to be 95; Roy died at 25 when she accidentally stepped into a propeller.)

Sisters Katherine and Marjorie Stinson took a more long-term approach, establishing a flight school in Texas with their mother and brother that trained, among others, Canadian pilots in the run up to World War I.

When the U.S. entered the war, the country’s civil aviation — including the Stinson School for Flying — was shut down.

Katherine went to Europe to serve as an ambulance driver while Marjorie became an aeronautical draftsman for the Navy.

War and the development of commercial aviation conspired to dampen women’s hopes of equality in the air.

Experienced women pilots such as LaRoche and Katherine Stinson volunteered to serve in their countries’ nascent air forces during World War I.

They were denied, the military preferring to train unseasoned men.

The same pattern occurred in World War II, although Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) did ferry U.S. military planes as civilian pilots during the conflict.

(The Soviet Union, however, had three female air combat regiments.)

The dream of every family owning a private plane never did materialize; the infrastructure required would have been too extensive.

Instead, the commercial aviation industry developed, hiring men — many of whom had been trained as pilots by the military.

It was no use pointing out, as Earhart did, that "if women had access to the training and equipment men had we could certainly do as well."

Helen Richey became the first female commercial pilot in 1934 but was hounded out of her job.

The U.S. Commerce Department, under pressure from the all-male pilots’ union, decreed that women weren’t allowed to fly scheduled routes in bad weather.

(They’d previously considered “grounding female pilots for nine days a month during menstruation,” according to Ware).

There wouldn’t be another female commercial pilot until 1973, when Emily Howell Warner was hired by Frontier.

#Raymonde de Laroche #Harriet Quimby #Bessie Coleman #Eileen Lebow #Susan Ware #National Air and Space Museum #Amelia Earhart #Neta Snook #Gladys Roy #Katherine and Marjorie Stinson #Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) #Helen Richey #Emily Howell Warner #female pilot #International Women's Day #International Women's Month #National Geographic #Nat Geo

[onceuponatown]

American Journalist Harriet Quimby was the first woman in America to be awarded a pilots license. and on April 16th, 1912, was the first woman to fly the English Chanel.She was denied much of the glory of her achievement when 2 days later, the Titanic sank and dominated front page headlines.

#women #pioneering women #1910's #english channel #women aviators #harriet quimby #titanic #and she still couldn't vote

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#vintage #harriet quimby

[dontcallittimetravel]

On This Day: A human woman named Harriet Quimby flew an airplane across the english channel, which no one thought she could do because they feared her vagina might lash out and crash the plane

#on this date #on this day #harriet quimby #english channel #pilot

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In 1911, actress, screenwriter, and pioneer aviator Harriet Quimby became the first woman in the United States to receive a pilot's license. She traveled around the country giving flying demonstrations, inspiring women to enter the field. She thrilled crowds flying at night in the moonlight. She was the first woman to fly across the English Channel. On July 1, 1912, while flying her new monoplane at an aviation meet outside Boston, it suddenly pitched forward at an altitude of 1000 feet, throwing her and a passenger to their deaths. How this happened is still a mystery. A tragic loss of a courageous woman who shrugged her shoulders at the glass ceiling, then flew right through it.

#history #harriet quimby #aviation #pioneer aviator #courageous #inspirational #women aviators

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#Harriet Quimby #Aviatrix #woman #pilot

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1912-Harriet Quimby

Harriet Quimby (May 11, 1875 – July 1, 1912) was an American pioneering aviator, journalist, and film screenwriter.

In 1911, she became the first woman in the United States to receive a pilot certificate, issued to her by the Aero Club of America.[1] In 1912, she became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. Although Quimby lived only to the age of 37, she influenced the role of women in aviation.

On July 1, 1912, she flew in the Third Annual Boston Aviation Meet at Squantum, Massachusetts.[1] Although she had obtained her ACA certificate to participate in ACA events, the Boston meet was an unsanctioned contest. Quimby flew out to Boston Light in Boston Harbor at about 3,000 feet (910 m), then returned and circled the airfield.[13]

William A. P. Willard, the organizer of the event and father of the aviator Charles F. Willard, was a passenger in her brand-new two-seat Bleriot monoplane. At an altitude of 1,000 feet (300 m) the aircraft unexpectedly pitched forward for reasons still unknown. Both Willard and Quimby were ejected from their seats and fell to their deaths, while the plane "glided down and lodged itself in the mud".

Harriet Quimby was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York. The following year her remains were moved to the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.[14] A cenotaph to Quimby, the Harriet Quimby Compass Rose Fountain, stands at Pierce Brothers/Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in Burbank, California. Located close to the cemetery's Portal of the Folded Wings, a shrine containing the ashes of aviation pioneers, the Quimby fountain's plaque reads:

Harriet Quimby became the first licensed female pilot in America on August 1, 1911. On April 16, 1912, she was the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel. She pointed the direction for future women pilots including her friend, Matilde Moisant, buried at the Portal of the Folded Wings.

#Jul.1.1912 #date of death #Harriet Quimby #American pilot #screenwriter #history today

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08/02/2022 is Paratroopers' Day, National Ice Cream Sandwich Day, National Night Out Day, National Coloring Book Day, Harriet Quimby Day, Rap Music Day

#paratrooper #ice cream sandwich #night out #coloring book #harriet quimby #rap music

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On 16th April 1912, who became the first female pilot to fly across the English channel?

Harriet Quimby (1875-1912) was an American pioneering aviator and the first female pilot to fly across the English Channel. Quimby was also the first woman to qualify for a license from the Aero Club of America.

Before becoming a pilot, Quimby worked as a writer in San Francisco, making a name for herself as one of few women in journalism at the time. In 1902, Quimby moved to New York City to pursue a career as a pilot.

As part of an exhibition group, Quimby competed in a variety of flying events. Less than one month after receiving her pilot's license, Quimby won her first cross-country race. She gained a reputation as an extremely safe pilot, who meticulously prepared and checked her plane before flight. She went on to publish an article about avoiding danger in the air and many of her standards went on to become the pre-flight checklist used today.

On 16th April 1912, Quimby took off from Dover, England, and made the 59 minute flight to Calais, France. This made her the first woman to fly over the English Channel, but her accomplishment received little media attention because the sinking of the Titanic ocean liner occurred the day before.

On 1st July 1912, Quimby participated in the Third Annual Boston Aviation Meet in Massachusetts. For reasons still unknown, Quimby's aircraft unexpectedly pitched forward, ejecting Quimby and her co-pilot from their seats. They fell from a height of 1,000 feet (300 m) to their deaths.

#Trivia #Harriet Quimby

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#polls #sapphic #children's books

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IMAGENES Y DATOS INTERESANTES DEL DIA 16 DE ABRIL DE 2024

Día Mundial de la Voz, Día Internacional contra la Esclavitud Infantil, Día Mundial del Emprendimiento, Día Internacional del Síndrome de Wolf-Hirschhorn, Semana Mundial de la Creatividad y la Innovación, Año Internacional de los Camélidos.

San Amilcar, Santa Anastasia y Santa Potenciana.

Tal día como hoy en el año 2016

Ocurre un terremoto en Ecuador de 7,8 grados en la escala de Richter con epicentro en Esmeraldas, causando 670 víctimas mortales y numerosos daños materiales.

2014

Se hunde el transbordador surcoreano MV Sewol cerca de la Isla Jindo, en el que mueren 304 personas. Acaba provocando una serie de críticas contra el gobierno y los medios de comunicación.

2007

Ocurre la Masacre de Virginia Tech, en Blacksburg (Estados Unidos), donde un joven mata a 32 estudiantes en el campus de la universidad, incluyendo a él mismo. Además 29 personas resultaron heridas.

1961

Fidel Castro anuncia el carácter socialista de la Revolución Cubana (enero de 1959), durante el entierro a las víctimas de un bombardeo estadounidense. Este hecho provocará un intento de invasión a la isla ordenado por el presidente de Estados Unidos J. F. Kennedy.

1948

Con el fin de restablecer la economía de Europa después de la II Guerra Mundial, 16 países europeos fundan la Organización Europea de Cooperación Económica, que más tarde pasará a llamarse Organización para la Cooperación Económica y el Desarrollo, con sede en París (Francia). Éste será uno de los primeros pasos buscando la unidad en Europa que culminará en la futura Unión Europea. (Hace 76 años)

1917

Con el país inmerso en el caos debido a la I Guerra Mundial y a la abdicación del Zar Nicolás II, Vladimir Ilich Lenin llega a Petrogrado (Rusia) desde su exilio en Suiza para tomar el control de la revolución. Aunque primero exiliado en Siberia y después huido a Europa debido a sus actividades políticas y revolucionarias, Lenin conseguirá reforzar el Partido Bolchevique mediante sus escritos y su fluida oratoria. Siete meses después de su regreso, y bajo la dirección de Lenin, los bolcheviques se harán con el poder. Lenin supervisará la creación de la Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas y dirigirá el país hasta su muerte en enero de 1924, tras haber sido tratado contra la sífilis el año anterior. (Hace 107 años)

1912

Harriet Quimby, intrépida aviadora americana, se convierte en la primera mujer en cruzar el Canal de la Mancha, al tripular su moderno monoplano, fabricado por el pionero francés de la aviación Louis Bleriot, a través de una espesa niebla desde las costas de Dover, en Inglaterra, hasta las playas de Hardelot, en Francia. Fallecerá en julio en un accidente aéreo. (Hace 112 años)

1746

En la batalla de Culloden, Escocia, el ejército inglés derrota a las fuerzas escocesas bajo el mando de Carlos Eduardo Estuardo, poniendo fin al levantamiento Jacobita para tratar de restaurar a la Casa de Estuardo al trono de Inglaterra. Ésta será la última batalla librada en suelo británico hasta la fecha. (Hace 278 años)

1582

En la actual Argentina, Hernando de Lerma, gobernador de Tucumán, cumpliendo órdenes del virrey del Perú, Francisco de Toledo, funda la ciudad de San Felipe de Lerma en el valle de Salta, con el fin de crear una escala en las comunicaciones entre Lima y Buenos Aires. La población más adelante pasará a llamarse sólamente Salta. (Hace 442 años)

1531

En México, fray Toribio Paredes, natural de Benavente, España, a quien los nativos llaman "Motolinía" ("pobrecito" en lengua náhuatl, por su vida sencilla), funda la ciudad de Puebla, en el Valle de Cuetlaxcoapan, en la margen oriental del río San Francisco. Por su situación, será paso obligado del comercio y prosperá con rapidez. (Hace 493 años)

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Harriet Quimby, first woman to fly across the English Channel (1912).

#aviation

[intheorangebedroom]

Hey friends!

I've had this HC about my beloved Pilot™️ forever a while, dying for someone to ask, as if anyone would ever think of asking something like that, until I realised it's my blog and I can post it if I please! And it gives me immense pleasure to do so (I don't need much...)

So here's a peek at what my Frankie's high school locker looked like 😍

They're his role models. The man really looks up to a strong headed, driven female aeronautical pioneer, flying against all odds...

Adrienne Bolland (France, 1895-1975, his favourite), Harriet Quimby (USA, 1875-1912) Amelia Earheart (USA, 1897-1939), Amy Johnson (UK, 1903-1941), Bessie Coleman (USA, 1892-1926), Hélène Boucher (France, 1908-1934), Jacqueline Auriol (1917-2000), Margot Duhalde Sotomayor (Chili, 1920-2018), Maryse Bastié (France, 1898-1952), Mona Friedlander (UK, 1914-1993), Elizabeth L. Gardner (USA, 1921-2011), Nancy Harkness Love (USA, 1914-1976)

#pleased to meet you HC #Francisco Catfish Morales #the Pilot™️ #Frankie Morales #pioneers of aviation

[eldritch-muppetshow]

alright, pink bird jim henson hour headcanon time

- until/unless the jhc says something to confirm otherwise (which i doubt they will any time soon), i’m naming her harriet, after harriet quimby to keep lindbergh’s aviation theme going. also bc she looks like a harriet to me idk

- news reporter, i can only speculate what her sketches would have been like but my headcanon is that she would go around interviewing random people (and animals, and vegetables, and inanimate objects) on “important issues of the time” (in other words, whatever goofy question was guaranteed to yield an equally goofy answer). she’s also good at sounding very professional during these bits.

- lindbergh’s girlfriend, at least at the time the jhh was on air. haven’t decided if they’re still together, they’re definitely still on good terms though

- she keeps the news reporter voice up even during normal conversation (and it’s probably just how she talks tbh). this tends to make it difficult for other muppets to tell when she’s joking/being sarcastic

#the muppets #muppets #the jim henson hour

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🔸 American Journalist Harriet Quimby was the first woman in America to be awarded a pilots license. and on April 16th, 1912, was the first woman to fly the English Channel. She was denied much of the glory of her achievement due to the sinking of the Titanic 2 days earlier which still dominated front page headlines. Three months later, on July 1, 1912 Quimby made her last flight at the Harvard-Boston Aviation Meet where she met with a tragic accident. She was flying in the Bleriot with William Willard when suddenly the plane went into a nose dive. Willard was thrown from his seat after which the aircraft flipped over, throwing Harriet out too. Both Quimby and Willard fell and died at Dorchester Bay. Ironically the aircraft landed with little damage. Quimby died aged 37 years. #victorianchaps #vintage #edwardian #oldphoto #tragedy #flying #pilot #1910s #goodolddays #retro #nostalgia #pastlives #history #achievement https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc8X6YFD6Xi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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