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Flying solo

by Julie Cummins

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In 1927, airplanes were a thrilling but dangerous novelty. Most people, men and women, believed that a woman belonged in the kitchen and not in a cockpit. Ruth Elder set out to prove them wrong by flying across the Atlantic Ocean.

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