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Aviation Pioneers: Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman's Record-Breaking Flights

Aviation Pioneers: Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman's Record-Breaking Flights

Released Thursday, 28th March 2024
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Aviation Pioneers: Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman's Record-Breaking Flights

Aviation Pioneers: Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman's Record-Breaking Flights

Aviation Pioneers: Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman's Record-Breaking Flights

Aviation Pioneers: Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman's Record-Breaking Flights

Thursday, 28th March 2024
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As Women's History Month comes to a close, we dive into the stories of two pioneering pilots: Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman. Yet while the legend of Earhart’s aviation feats and mysterious disappearance has long gripped the public imagination, Coleman’s equally impressive career as the first African-American woman to hold a pilot license is a story that still largely goes untold. Lale chats with Dorothy Cochrane, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, to find out more about both pilots record-breaking flights, the risks they took, the individual challenges they faced, and the ingenious ways they advocated for themselves.

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