“Hoots and derision—which
did not worry me at all,” Lilian Bland wrote
, describing her visit to an air show in Blackpool
, England, in 1909. She’d been telling everyone there that she intended t… [+37895 chars]
In 1910 an Anglo-Irish woman named Lilian Bland built a plane with little to no encouragement from her family or aviation enthusiasts. Shortly after the plane took off, she quit flying and moved on to her next challenge
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