Harriet Quimby

Harriet Quimby was born in 11th of May 1875 at America; she lived in Arcadia, Michigan. Harriet Quimby was an early “Movie Screenwriter and American Aviator”. Harriet Quimby has honor to become the first woman who gained a pilot license issued by “Aero Club of America” in 1911 of United States. She also became the first women who fly across the “English Channel”. Harriet Quimby had a great impact on the roles of women in aviation even she got the age of 37.

Then in early 1900s, her family transferred to San Francisco, California. Harriet Quimby became journalist, in 1903 then she migrated to New York for work as “Theatre Critic” for Leslie`s Illustrated Weekly (was an American illustrated literary and news magazine founded in 1852). This news magazine published her 250 articles over a period of nine years and then in 1910, Harriet Quimby became interested in Aviation. She participated in the “Belmont Park” (An International Aviation Tournament on Long Island, New York), where she met with her brother John, who was a famous American aviator and operator of a “Flight School”.

Harriet Quimby took her pilot test in 1st August, 1911 and became the first woman of United States to get certificate of pilot. At the same year Quimby wrote five screenplays which were short by “Biograph Studios” in “Silent Film”. All of her screenplays directed by D.W. Griffith including stars like “Blanche Sweet, Wilfred Lucas and Florece La Badie”.

In 1st July, 1912 Harriet Quimby was flying her new two seats Bleriot monoplane in “Third Annual Boston Aviation” suddenly plane was pitched forward Harriet and William Willard (Organizer of event) were ejected and died. No one could found the reason of her plan`s problem and how they put to death. She was buried in the “Woodlawn Cemetery’ in The Bronx, New York.

Harriet Quimby

Harriet Quimby

Harriet Quimby

Harriet Quimby