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Wearing her trademark plum-colored flying gear, a confident Harriet Quimby sits in the cockpit of a Blériot monoplane. (Library of Congress)
Wearing her trademark plum-colored flying gear, a confident Harriet Quimby sits in the cockpit of a Blériot monoplane. (Library of Congress)