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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]
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.
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]
In 2014, while preparing for her 20,000th parachute jump, Stearns was hit by a car while riding her bike. [15] She suffered a traumatic brain injury, which had a wide ranging impact on her memory and cognitive function. It took two years and one week after the accident for Stearns to recover her medical certification to fly.
She was the first female disc jockey in the Pleasantville area. Following her graduation from high school , Savitch attended Ithaca College in Ithaca , New York , as a communications major. She was an announcer for the college’s television station, WICB, and worked in radio at nearby Rochester 's WBBF (now WROC-AM ).
A Virginia family of four who dedicated their lives to figure skating and each other were among the victims who died in Wednesday's devastating plane crash near Reagan National Airport.. Business ...
First person to die while piloting a powered airplane and the second person to be killed in an airplane crash Wright Model A: Port-Aviation (Juvisy), France Crashed from 20 feet Raymonde de Laroche: France 1919 First woman to earn a pilot's license experimental Caudron: Le Crotoy, France Leif Holger Larsen: Norway 2015 Diplomat Mil Mi-17
Shalie Lipp, an amateur MMA fighter from Breckenridge, Minnesota, died Sunday in a car accident along a highway in her home state. She was 21. ... Police are still investigating the crash, ...