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Female Aviation Firsts
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| 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. |