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The First Woman Aeronaut

12/11/2013

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Citoyenne Henry, is recorded as being the first woman aeronaut, in a balloon, 1798, in spite of a ban on females going up. She was French

(One of my students found a reference on the internet to a June-Elizabeth Thurley who flew in 1795)

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