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Also in 1914, Broadwick jumped into Lake Michigan, becoming the first woman to parachute into a body of water. [18] In 1912, Tiny Broadwick married Andrew Olsen, divorced, then, in 1916, married Harry Brown, and stopped parachuting for four years. That marriage also ended in divorce; she retained the name Georgia Brown thereafter.
Gray began making parachute jumps in 1935, at the age of 19, and became the first licensed female parachutist in Connecticut. [1] In the inter-war years she appeared in barnstorming shows as part of a stunt parachuting team and, from 1938, operated a parachute training school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. [1]
Stearns made her first parachute jump in 1971 at the age of 17 in Coolidge, Arizona. [2] [3] In 1977 she became the first female member of the Golden Knights, the U.S. Army's elite parachute team. She served two three-year tours. [4] She served two active duty hitches with the Golden Knights in her military career. [5]
Jackie Moggridge (born Dolores Theresa Sorour; 1 March 1922 – 7 January 2004) was a pioneering pilot, the first woman to do a parachute jump in South Africa and the first female airline captain of scheduled passenger services. [1] [2]
First successful jump from a balloon with a parachute: Andre Jacques Garnerin in Paris in 1797. [20] First balloon ascent on horseback. Pierre Testu-Brissy ascended from Belleville Park in Paris. [21] First woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute: Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse jumped from an altitude of 3,000 ft (900 m) on October 12, 1799.
First all-black, all-female crew operate regular American Airlines commercial flight August 20, 2022, from Dallas to Phoenix to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bessie Coleman being the first African American woman to obtain a commercial pilot's license in 1921 and for performing the first public flight by an African American woman in 1922 ...
Omlie was the first woman to receive an airplane mechanic's license, the first licensed female transport pilot, and the first woman to be appointed to a federal position in the aviation field. [2] During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Omlie set several world records in aviation, including the highest altitude parachute jump by a woman.
Katharina "Käthe" Paulus (22 December 1868 – 26 July 1935) [1] was a German exhibition parachute jumper and the inventor of the first collapsible parachute. [2] At the time, 1910, the parachute was named "rescue apparatus for aeronauts". [3]