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GOBOKO . COM published 11/21/2020 on the wall of Goboko (official)...
GOBOKO . COM published 11/16/2020 on the wall of Goboko (official)...
Reporter/photographer Harriet Quimby in her purple satin flightsuit! She talked her paper into paying for her flying lessons. Here she's propping a 3-cylinder 25hp Anzani radial engine sporting an innovative Chauvière propeller, all hanging on a Blériot XI. She became the first American woman pilot in 1911 and the first woman to fly across the English Channel in 1912—a first sadly obscured in history because she did it the day after the Titanic sank.
GOBOKO . COM published 10/25/2020 on the wall of Goboko (official)...
Hybrid aircraft in Charente-Maritime(France): "a step towards the aviation of the future"
Developed at Royan-Médis aerodrome since 2017, the VoltAero Cassio could enter series production "at the end of 2022". A flight demonstration took place on Wednesday.
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GOBOKO . COM published 10/25/2020 on the wall of Goboko (official)...
Elisa Deroche
October 22, 1909
Woman's 1st solo flight
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October 22, 1909 is a key date in the history of female aviation. Indeed, this is the first time that a woman has taken control of an airplane on her own and carried out a flight.
This "feat", for the time, was achieved by the French actress Elisa Deroche known as Baroness Raymonde de Laroche, who for some time, encouraged by Charles Voisin, began to take flying lessons, in order to pass her patent. It was at the…
GOBOKO . COM published 10/23/2020 on the wall of Goboko (official)...
Harder to fly now...
10/24/2020 10:47 AM
Oops. Looks like it might have some weight and balance issues :-P