The first flight across the English Channel by a woman piloting an aeroplane was accomplished by Miss Harriet Quimby, an American airwoman, who ascended in a Bleriot monoplane at Whitfield, near Dover, and landed at Hardelot, near Boulogne.
The first flight across the English Channel by a woman piloting an aeroplane was accomplished by Miss Harriet Quimby, an American airwoman, who ascended in a Bleriot monoplane at Whitfield, near Dover, and landed at Hardelot, near Boulogne.