 Harriet Quimby Curtiss Harriet Quimby was the first American women pilot. Harriet Quimby was also a famous reporter. She flew the English channel April 16, 1912. Sad but true, she died July 1st, 1912. If she was still alive she would be the best known pilot in America. Harriet Quimby Emily B Harriet Quimby was the first American lady who drove a plane.She flew the English Channel. She lived from 1875-1912. She died from falling off the plane trying to catch her passenger. She got famous in New York by being a newspaper and magazine writer. She lived in Arcadia, Michigan. The people who were supposed to give her her plane license didn’t because she was a girl. She told them that if they didn’t give her her plane license, that she would write about them in her newspaper and her magazine. They got nervous so they gave it to her. She died in an air craft show on July 1st, 1912. Harriet Quimby Joleen She live in Arcadia. She was a reporter. She was the first woman to get a pilot license. She flew the English channel on April 16, 1912. She flew with a passenger. The passenger was standing up , so the plane was tipping. She tried to keep him on the plane. She fell off the plane. She was in the freezing water. She died on July 1. Harriet Quimby Chelsea Harriet Quimby was the first American women pilot. She flew over the English channel in April, the 16th of 1912. But not too many people knew about it because that was the day everybody heard that the “unsinkable Titanic” sunk. Poor Harriet! That was a very dangerous thing to do, most people never dreamed of it. That is known know, and if she was still alive, she would be a very famous person. Harriet Quimby Arturo Harriet Quimby was the first women to get her flying license and to be the first pilot. She was a famous reporter. She flew to the English Channel in April 16,1912. It was foggy. And she died in July 1, 1912. Harriet Quimby Nate My Grandmother has a paper that tells about Harriet Quimby. It tells about her life. She used to live in a house one field from me. It is right in front of my Grandma's house. It is a old house, but it still has a lot of flowers around it like daffodils and roses. There isn't any paint on the house. It is getting really rotted. I looked in the window. |
Harriet Quimby America's First Lady of the Air Author Ed Hall spoke to the fourth through seventh grade students about Harriet Quimby. Harriet was born in the Arcadia area, at the North end of Erdman Road. It was exciting to know a famous person had lived here. Ed Hall's books on Harriet Quimby are available in the Onekama Library.
Harriet Quimby Chelsea Harriet Quimby was the first American women pilot. She flew over the English channel in April, the 16th of 1912. But not too many people knew about it because that was the day everybody heard that the “unsinkable Titanic” sunk. Poor Harriet! That was a very dangerous thing to do, most people never dreamed of it. That is known know, and if she was still alive, she would be a very famous person. Harriet Quimby Ryan B Harriet grew up in Arcadia Michigan. Then she moved to California. When she got older she went to New York city, and became a famous writer. She wrote for news papers and magazines. Then she wanted to be a pilot because she wanted to write about it. Once she got her license she flew the English channel. She died at a air show in Boston. Harriet Quimby Gini Harriet Quimby was the first lady to get a pilot license and to fly. She was the first person to fly the English Channel on April 16,1912. She was a reporter for Leslie's Magazine. She went to do a report on air shows so she went to watch the air show and liked it and took up flying.That is when she got her license. She died on July 1,1912. Before she died two of the children in her family died. That was when she was little and lived in Arcadia. She moved from Michigan to California to New York.That is the life of Harriet Quimby the first female pilot.
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Harriet Quimby Andrea She was the first women flying a plane ever. She flew the English channel the day after the Titanic sank April 16,1912. It was a foggy day. She flew with another guy in Boston and he got sick and fell out of the plane. She tried to catch him but she died July 1,1912. She was 37 years old when she died. We now think she was from Arcadia, Michigan. Harriet Quimby by Kris She was from Arcadia, MI, and she was also the first female pilot. She flew the England channel on April 16 ,1912, but her engine died out but fired back up again. She died on July 1,1912. Her passenger stood up and unstabled the plane and they both fell out and hit the Atlantic Ocean. |
