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Who is the first woman to be filmed, not photographed, in an airplane?
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#95842. Asked by serpa. (May 19 08 11:56 AM)
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gtho4

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It's probably Baroness Raymonde de Larouche.
On 8th March 1910 she became the first female to receive a pilot's licence. She appears in this video, at 3:40, in the cockpit of what looks like a single seater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jq3LZHn8mA
The first woman to win her fixed wing pilot's license was the self-styled Baroness de la Roche (real name Elise Raymonde Deroche). She is described in contemporary reports as a "young and pretty" comedienne (which probably means she was an actress, in the jargon of the time, though she is also described as a "lyrical artist", or singer). Previously a balloonist, She won license # 36 of the International Aeronautics Federation (F.A.I.) on 8 March 1910, at the age of 24.
http://www.earlyaviators.com/edelaroc.htm
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