On this day in aviation history, January 16, 1929, Anglo-Irish noblewoman Lady Mary Bailey, returned to Croydon Aerodrome, London, 10 months after setting out on an epic solo flight from London to ...

It also didn't stop her from flying a plane. In 1946 ... Keller had been on planes in the past — she was a passenger on a plane for the first time in 1919 while taking part in a biographical ...

In her 11 months as "America's First Lady of the Air," as the press ... Quimby secretly shipped the plane to Dover, England—she wanted to fly from England to France, rather than the other ...

Jerrie Mock was the first woman to fly around the world alone, wearing tights, heels and pearls, in a plane called Charlie. On 19 March 1964, Jerrie Mock made aviation history when she became the ...