For the daring Harriet Quimby, the sky was the limit. She even conquered even that. The turn-of-the-century adventurer was an actress in San Francisco, a pioneering journalist in New York, and a re… ...

The College Park Aviation Museum in College Park, Maryland, is honoring Quimby this Saturday, March 18, with a special free event called “Harriet Quimby, America’s First Aviatrix.” More Anne ...

Harriet hurried to work at the newspaper office. As a columnist for Leslie’s Weekly Newspaper, she was always on the go. And boy, did she intend to go places. She was tall and slender and her ...

"The trip was as easy as sitting at home in an armchair, and I never had any doubt of my success." —Harriet Quimby on her historic Channel flight On August 1, 1911, at age 36, Harriet Quimby ...

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Aviator Harriet Quimby's remarkable life recounted in new book 03:41. GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- Move over, Amelia Earhart. The first lady of the skies was the invincible and virtually unknown Harriet ...

Harriet Quimby was a New York journalist with a mysterious background. She claimed to have had wealthy parents who put her through some of the best education in America. What's more likely is that ...

Harriet Quimby was not the only woman on the list, either: Julia Clark of Sprinfield, Illinois, had died in June when she flew into a tree.

Late at night on April 14, 1912, as the Titanic blazed toward its frigid destiny somewhere in the North Atlantic Ocean, Harriet Quimby was sleeping. The weather off the coast of England had been ...

Harriet Quimby was the first American woman to get a pilot's license. It was 1910; women could not even vote, but Quimby wanted to see the world.