She continued making exhibition flights until 1916, earning her the nickname the ‘Tomboy of the Air’.
29th July 1588: Decisive Battle of Gravelines during the Spanish Armada
29th July 2018
She continued making exhibition flights until 1916, earning her the nickname the ‘Tomboy of the Air’.
French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.
Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian plumber.
On the 17th December 1903, American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight.
On the 18th February 1930, Nellie Jay – better known as Elm Farm Ollie – became the first cow to fly in an aeroplane.
Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first high-altitude parachute descent.