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  2. Tiny Broadwick - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Kara Hultgreen - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Susan Smith - Wikipedia

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    Susan Leigh Smith (née Vaughan; born September 26, 1971) is an American woman who was convicted of murdering her two sons, three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alexander, in 1994 by strapping her children in their car seats, and rolling her car containing her two children into John D. Long Lake in South Carolina.

  5. Naomi Heron-Maxwell - Wikipedia

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    Helen Naomi Heron-Maxwell (25 Jun 1913–1983) was a British woman parachutist and glider pilot in the 1930s. She was the first woman glider pilot in the United Kingdom to achieve the Silver-C badge. She promoted gliding and helped to establish gliding clubs. She was a ferry pilot for the Air Transport Auxiliary in the Second World War.

  6. Hilder Florentina Smith - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Breast Cancer Survivor, 55, Dies While Skydiving in ... - AOL

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    Unfortunately, the parachutist was pronounced dead at the scene.” Related: 80-Year-Old Woman Goes Skydiving for the First Time — and Sums Up the Experience with One Word

  8. Edith Maud Cook - Wikipedia

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    Edith Maud Cook (1 September 1878 – 14 July 1910), was an early British parachutist, balloonist, and aviator, recognized as Britain's first female pilot. [1] She was also known as Viola Spencer-Kavanagh, Viola Spencer, Viola Kavanagh, and perhaps as Viola Fleet and Elsa Spencer.

  9. Why did no one help her? Fatal subway burning exposes New ...

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    The footage itself is a dystopian horror show: a female figure standing like a zombie while her sadistic torturer sits on the platform and watches her body be eaten by flames.