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Multi-Media Aviation Program - Harriet Quimby's Cross-Channel Flight of April 1912

Giacinta Bradley Koontz, Neighbor
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1912-2012 CENTENNIAL EVENT:  A COSTUMED, POWER-POINT AND SILENT FILM PROGRAM

"THE CROSS-CHANNEL FLIGHT OF HARRIET QUIMBY - The week of Tragedy and Triumph."  The Titanic sinks on April 14, 1912.  Quimby is the first woman to solo across the English Channel April 16, 1912.

BY GIACINTA BRADLEY KOONTZ, AVIATION HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR

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