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Breaking into aviation was no easy chore for females at the turn of the century. Many were forced to take chances and risk their lives to further their cause.
"Cut off the engine, Jack!," Wilbur Wright called to Sadie Van Deman in 1909 as they flew over Washington in a slat and muslin plane.
The self-styled "Baroness de Laroche" of France gained her pilot's licence in 1909, becoming the first woman to do so.
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