American media reported that plans were under way for a biographical film entitled Aeroplane Angel that would dramatize Quimby's life
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Harriet Quimby
Harriet Quimby was an American pioneering aviator, journalist, and film screenwriter. In 1911, she became the first woman in the United States to receive a pilot's license and in 1912 the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel. Although Quimby only flew for one year, and died at the age of 37 in a flying accident, she strongly influenced the role of women in aviation.
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culture · American aviation pioneer (1875–1912) · aircraft pilot · journalist · screenwriter · also Harriet Quimby, Quimby
Born 11 May 1875 · Died 1 July 1912 · Q254352
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Michigan Women's Hall of Fame (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Quimby was inducted into the Long Island Air and Space Hall of Fame
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (2004).
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Quimby was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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1991· 1 entry
The United States Postal Service issued a 50 cent airmail postage stamp featuring Harriet Quimby
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1912· 4 entries
Died 1912-07-01.
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Quimby flew in the Third Harvard-Boston Air Meet at the Harvard Aviation Field at Squantum Point, Quincy, Massachusetts
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Quimby took off from Dover, England, en route to Calais, France, completing the flight in 59 minutes after landing about 25 miles (40 km) from Calais on a beach in Équihen-Plage, Pas-de-Calais
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Was a brand new two-seater, the idea that the former was the aircraft that she was flying at the time of her death seems to be an urban legend
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1911· 4 entries
Quimby passed her pilot's test and became the first North American woman to earn a pilot's license, receiving Fédération Aéronautique Internationale certificate No
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Quimby also wrote seven screenplays or scenarios that were developed as silent film shorts by Biograph Studios
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Earning $1,500 in a night flight over Staten Island before a crowd of almost 20,000 spectators
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Became the first woman in the United States to receive a pilot's license and in 1912 the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel
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1910· 1 entry
When she attended the International Aviation Meet at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York
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1906· 1 entry
“Miss Harriet Quimby – America's First and Most Successful Aviatrix”
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1903· 1 entry
Moved to Manhattan, New York City to work as a theater critic for Leslie's Illustrated Weekly
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1902· 1 entry
Quimby began writing for the San Francisco Dramatic Review as well as contributing to the Sunday editions of the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Call
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1875· 2 entries
In Michigan, to Ursula (née Cook) and William Quimby
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Born 1875-05-11.
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1874· 1 entry
Where the family was recorded as residing in the 1880 United States Census
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