Have you knowledge of BESSIE COLMAN....if not why not and if so why doesn't everyone else?????

Question

A few years back I started taking pilot lessons and was asked , "Who was the first women to fly?" I gave the answer we all know and it was wrong. That was the 1st time I had ever hear Bessie Colemans' name. To my great fortune not only was I told about her I was also given a book (Bessie Coleman Life Story, a postage stamp and news paper clipping) now I try to educate others.

Answer 1

yeah I knew about her,
from school however ( I went to an inner city school so yeah...)

it really sux people dont know of her more, but I believe we know why......

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Answer 2

- Bessie Coleman becomes the first African American, male or female, to earn a pilot's license in 1921
But long before that in 1908 - Madame Therese Peltier is the first woman to fly an airplane solo .

1910 - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche obtains a license from the Aero Club of France, the first woman licensed in the world

1910 - September 2 - Blanche Stuart Scott, without permission or knowledge of Glenn Curtiss, the airplane's owner and builder, removes a small wood wedge and is able to get the airplane airborne -- without any flying lessons -- thus becoming the first American woman to pilot an airplane

1910 - October 13 - Bessica Raiche's flight qualifies her, for some, as the first woman pilot in America -- because some discount the flight of Scott as accidental and therefore deny her this credit

1910 - Baroness Raymonde de la Roche becomes the first woman in the world to earn her pilot's license

1911 - August 11 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first American woman licensed pilot

1911 - September 4 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly at night

1912 - April 16 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to pilot her own aircraft across the English Channel

1913 - Alys McKey Bryant is the first woman pilot in Canada

1916 - Ruth Law sets two American records flying from Chicago to New York

1918 - The US postmaster general approves the appointment of Marjorie Stinson as the first female airmail pilot

1919 - Ruth Law becomes the first person to fly air mail in the Phillipines

1921 - Adrienne Bolland is the first woman to fly over the Andes


See? Lots of women before her.....

See word aviation timeline in
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/aviationpilots/a/av_timeline.htm

Answer 3

I have heard of her, but didn't know the details. Thank you for the information.

Did you get your pilot's license yet? What are you flying?

Answer 4

I do and hardly anyone knows about her because one she was a woman, two she was African American that's why.