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Broadwick ready to drop from a Martin T airplane piloted by Glenn Martin.. Georgia Ann "Tiny" Thompson Broadwick (April 8, 1893 in Oxford, North Carolina – August 25, 1978 in Long Beach, California), [1] [2] or Georgia Broadwick, previously known as Georgia Jacobs, and later known as Georgia Brown, was an American pioneering parachutist and the inventor of the ripcord. [3]
Elsa Teresia Andersson (27 April 1897 in Strövelstorp, Sweden – 22 January 1922) was Sweden's first female aviator and stunt parachutist. She was the daughter of a poor farmer in Strövelstorp in the Scanian countryside. Her mother died when she was aged six. Her elder brother left the family and sought a new life in America.
Kara S. Hultgreen [1] (October 5, 1965 – October 25, 1994) was an American naval aviator who served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy and was the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She was also the first female fighter pilot in the U.S. military to die in a crash. [2]
Hilder Florentina Youngberg Smith (August 10, 1890 – January 11, 1977) was an aerial acrobat, parachutist, and pioneer aviator. She was one of California's first female pilots and the first woman to fly an airplane from LAX. Hilder was a member of a flying aerial team called The Flying Sylvesters. [1]
The first photos have surfaced of the teen shooter who killed a student and teacher at a Wisconsin Christian school — and she’s wearing a T-shirt featuring a band favored by Columbine killer ...
Gray rigging a parachute in August 1942. Adeline Gray, married names Johnson and Graf, (1915/16 – September 27, 1975) was an early American parachutist.She is thought to have been one of the only female parachutists in the United States before the 1940s.
Lt. Serena “Dug” Wileman, right, and Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay “Miley” Evans, both 31, were killed when their two-seat EA-18G Growler jet crashed during a routine training flight on Oct. 15.
Figure skaters Everly and Alydia Livingston, ages 11 and 14 years old, are reportedly among the victims of the Jan. 29 American Airlines plane crash.