First Woman to Fly Across the English Channel

Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel, solo, on April 16, 1912, although news about her achievement was overwhelmed in the American media by news about the Titanic disaster. Quimby was also the first woman licensed as a pilot in the United States. Learn more: Harriet Quimby

_{Image: Photograph of Harriet Quimby in her Bleriot monoplane, 1911. Courtesy Library of Congress.}