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Airport Journals

By Henry M. Holden

Harriet Quimby lost her life when her Bleriot XI tossed her and her passenger out of the airplane at 2,000 feet.

On July 9, 1903, five months before the Wright brothers made their historic flight, Cuban-born American, Aida de Acosta, soloed in a dirigible outside Paris, France.

After the Wright brothers’ first powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine, the French rose to the leadership role in world aviation. In 1910, Raymonde de la Roche, of France, became the first woman in the world to earn a pilot’s license. In the United States, however, prominent men in aviation, like the Wrights, refused to let women fly.

“I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight. This attitude made me more determined than ever to succeed,” said Harriet Quimby, the first American woman to earn her pilot’s license, in 1911.

Quimby, like many aviators of the day, didn’t have a long expected life span. The more often they flew the dangerous and unstable aircraft, the greater the odds they would have a fatal aircraft accident. Quimby did what she loved to do, and paid the price many of her contemporaries also paid. The first woman to solo the English C

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Who were the first American women to fly? To earn their pilot’s licenses? What are their stories? Meet the determined women who took to skies at a time when opportunities for women were severely limited.  

Bessica Raiche

On September 16, 1910, Bessica Raiche made the first accredited solo flight by a woman in the United States. Raiche was considered a "new" woman of the 20th century because she drove an automobile and wore bloomers. In addition to being an accomplished musician, painter, and linguist, she also participated in typically “masculine” activities as swimming and shooting. While studying music in Paris, Raiche became intrigued by the flying of the Baroness Raymonde de Laroche.

Settling in Mineola, New York, she and her husband, Francois, built their first plane—a Wright type—in their living room. It was in this frail craft of bamboo and silk that she made her solo flight. In October 1910, the Aeronautical Society honored her with a dinner and a gold medal as America's first woman aviator.  

The Raiches expanded their home-based silk, wire, and bamboo aircraft industry into a profitable company, the French-American Aeroplane