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Female Aviation Firsts
Timeline Search: Name the Year
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Below are the answers for the student activity that accompanies the Female Aviation Firsts' timeline. Be honest when checking your work or another student's work.

1929 1. A solo flight endurance record of 13 hours and 16 minutes was set in this year.
1929 2. Bobbi Trout flew all night one night in this year.
1936 3. This was the year that a female pilot and co-pilot team won the Bendix Transcontinental Air Race from L.A to N.Y.
1961 4. Cochran flew to an altitude of 55,253 feet for a new flight height in this year.
1984 5. A female pilot flew a jumbo jet across the Atlantic Ocean on a commercial flight in this year.
1990 6. Tinsley was the first female pilot to fly a tilt rotor aircraft in this year.
1924 7. An international hydroplane license was granted to Ruth Nichols in this year.
1930 8. A record for flying 143 consecutive loops was set in this year.
1938 9. The first woman to fly a helicopter did so in what year?
1910 10. The first solo flight by a woman happened in this year.
1931 11. Anne Morrow Lindberg was the first woman to earn her glider pilot's license in this year.

 
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