March 19, 2024
Miss Stinson - pioneer female aviator - 1916 biplane
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A very rare, unmailed postcard for sale commemoriating the flight of Miss Katharine Stinson from Brandon, Manitoba, Canada to (Canadian Forces Base) Camp Hughes in southern Manitoba. In the picture she is greeted by several Canadian Forces officers in front of her biplane on July 22, 1916. Miss Stinson is credited with the first air mail flight in Canada. Also excerpted from the Smithsonian Institution's website - PILOT STORIES: The Stinsons The member of a famous early aviation family, Katherine Stinson was the fourth woman in the U.S. to obtain a pilot's license. Her brother Eddie Stinson became an influential airplane manufacturer, and her sister Marjorie conducted a flight school. Katherine Stinson flew a Curtiss JN-4D on exhibition flights for the Red Cross during World War I and even set a Canadian distance and endurance record before the end of the war. On May 23, 1918, Katherine flew as a specially assigned airmail pilot, bringing mail from Chicago to New York City, months before the Post Office Department tried to set up their own route between the two cities. Ten hours after taking off, she landed 600 miles away at Binghamton, New York. T, her airplane nosed over when she attempted to take-off and finish the flight. On May 24, 1918, the Washington Post congratulated Stinson on breaking two records during her "Aero
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