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Eleanor Trehawke Davies Crosses The Pond

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April 2, 1912 Eleanor Trehawke Davies became the first women to cross the English Channel in an airplane, as Gustav Hamel's passenger. The next year she climbed from her sick bed to fly with Hamel again, becoming the first woman to loop the loop.

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