Black-and-white 1911–1912 portrait of Harriet Quimby, the first American woman to earn a pilot’s license. She leans confidently out of the cockpit of her monoplane, smiling broadly. Wearing a leather flying helmet and her signature purple satin flying suit (converted from a hooded jumpsuit), scarf tucked in; the aircraft’s wooden propeller and struts frame the shot.
Celebrating American aviator Harriet Quimby on #CivilAviationDay!
Quimby was the first woman in the US to obtain a pilot's license (1911) & in 1912, she became the first woman to fly across the English Channel (her only instruments: hand-held compass & a watch).
#aviation #flight #history #firsts
37
9
1
1
