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- Law, Ruth (d. 1970)First American pilot to fly nonstop for 590 miles. Died in 1970.In a plane that she had purchased from Orville Wright in 1912, aviator Ruth Law made news when she became the first woman pilot to perform a loop-the-loop. She was also the first woman to chance flying at night, a dangerous venture at the time.
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Nov 2, 2021 · Law enrolled in the Burgess Flying School in June 1912, making her first flight on July 5 of that year, and soloing on August 12. Here are four things you’ll want to know about her colorful career. She bought her first aircraft from Orville Wright.
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Ruth Law, from the cover of the May 5, 1917 issue of Billboard After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, she campaigned unsuccessfully for women to be allowed to fly military aircraft.
Oct 2, 2023 · “Man can do nothing with an aeroplane that women cannot do equally as well,” Ruth Law declared shortly after her record-breaking non-stop flight from Chicago to New York in November 1916. Learn more about her life and impact as a female aviator in the 1910s.
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America’s first female flying instructor, the first U.S. female pilot to loop-the-loop, the first woman to fly at night and the first pilot to fly airmail in the Philippines, Ruth Law was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on March, 21, 1887, the third of four children. Her father, Frederick, a traveling salesman, had served in the Navy. Her parents’ mar...
After Law returned from Europe, the government sent her on a cross-country air trip to promote Liberty bonds and recruit for the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, even granting her special permission to wear a uniform during her recruitment efforts. In an article titled “Enlist!” in the October 1917 issue of Air Travel, Law urged men to join th...
In early 1919, Law gave exhibition flights in Japan before a Tokyo audience reported at 50,000. She visited the Philippines on the same trip, where she made her pioneering airmail flight. In 1920 she founded Ruth Law’s Flying Circus, featuring several airplanes and daredevil stunts — such as Law standing on a wing while the pilot looped-the-loop — ...
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Daring and courageous efforts should be remembered—especially when they result in remarkable achievements. In 1916, a young woman named Ruth Bancroft Law (1887-1970) attempted to do something that no man or woman had done before: fly from Chicago to New York City in one day.
Mar 2, 2016 · She was the first woman to make a living as a professional pilot, ferrying guests to and from the Clarendon Hotel near Daytona, Florida, and she thrilled crowds flying in exhibitions. In 1915, she bought a Curtiss pusher “loop” model, and became the first woman to perform a “loop the loop” aerobatic maneuver, not once but twice in a row.
American women were not permitted to fly in the military during WWI, but that didn’t stop one pioneering aviator from trying. At age 21, Ruth Law bought her first airplane from Orville Wright, who refused to train her since he believed women did not have the mechanical aptitude for flight.
