The 'early days' of the subtitle are those before 1914, and the number of women who flew then, some without actual licenses, runs well into three figures. The first to fly and get a license was French: Raymonde de Laroche. She had numerous compatriots, though, not least the amazing, long-lived Marie Marvingt. Harriet Quimby was first-with-license in the U.S., but she was killed less than a year afterward; Ruth Law and the Stinson sisters lasted longer and flew farther in the U.S. Hilda Hewlett was not only the first Englishwoman to fly, she and the German Milli Beese were the first women to run aircraft factories. There were Russians, Italians, Scandinavians, Austrians, Hungarians, and many others who demolished taboos, records, airplanes, and occasionally themselves with pioneering aplomb.
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