Show bird women I 1 IN N 1932 newspaper dispatches recorded the death at santa ana calif of the first woman who ever flow flew an airplane she was dr jessica dalche fifty eight years old who in 1910 at the flying field at mineola N Y where many of the first flights were made in this oils country flew an old pusher type ship however IIo doctor balche the first of her sex to pilot a flying machine the woman who lid did that Is still living she is mrs airs henry breckinridge of new york fork wife of the icen kentucky lawyer and statesman who was vas assistant secretary of war under president wilson and later attorney and adviser to col charles A lindbergh on june 26 1003 1903 mrs breckenridge then aless alda de acosta one of live five sisters in a famous spanish american family went aloft alone in santos dumones Du monts dirigible number nine she successfully flew it across the the bols buis in paris her picture hat flapping in the breeze while the french crowds down below shouted excitedly une mademoiselle I 1 its a young woman that was six months before the wright brothers took off on their historic first flight at kitty hawk N C and three years before count zeppelin took to the air in his first dirigible that Is why sirs breckenridge earld e not only belongs to the famed society of early birds but could it if she wished claim the title of the first bird woman |