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Aktungbby · 07-01-15, 04:29 PM

1912: Harriet Quimby,

the first woman to fly the English Channel in 1912, an first licensed woman pilot in the US( lic. # 37) is killed along with her passenger at the Third Annual Boston Aviation Meet. William Willard, the organizer of the event, was a passenger in her brand-new two-seat?? Bleriot monoplane. At an altitude of 1,500 feet (460 m) the aircraft unexpectedly pitched forward for reasons still unknown. Then the unbelievable and horrifying occurred. Willard was seen to hurtle clear over the nose of the plane, followed a second or two later by Quimby. Both plunged into the muddy river 1,000 feet below which, with the tide out, was barely three or four feet. deep. Death was instantaneous. Ironically, the plane recovered from its dive, crash-landed in the river and, tripped by its landing gear, flipped upside down with only minor damage. It was intact enough for a thorough inspection of its controls. 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 in the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York

http://www.historynet.com/harriet-quimby-first-licensed-us-woman-pilot.htm

07-01-15, 04:29 PM	#845
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,121 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	No way to enter Valhalla 1912: Harriet Quimby, the first woman to fly the English Channel in 1912, an first licensed woman pilot in the US( lic. # 37) is killed along with her passenger at the Third Annual Boston Aviation Meet. William Willard, the organizer of the event, was a passenger in her brand-new two-seat?? Bleriot monoplane. At an altitude of 1,500 feet (460 m) the aircraft unexpectedly pitched forward for reasons still unknown. Then the unbelievable and horrifying occurred. Willard was seen to hurtle clear over the nose of the plane, followed a second or two later by Quimby. Both plunged into the muddy river 1,000 feet below which, with the tide out, was barely three or four feet. deep. Death was instantaneous. Ironically, the plane recovered from its dive, crash-landed in the river and, tripped by its landing gear, flipped upside down with only minor damage. It was intact enough for a thorough inspection of its controls. 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 in the Kensico Cemetery in *Valhalla, New York http://www.historynet.com/harriet-quimby-first-licensed-us-woman-pilot.htm __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness*?!!