Geraldine Mock flew around the world—and history remembers Amelia

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Amelia Earhart gets all the historical fame for mysteriously disappearing, while Geraldine Mock actually finished the assignment. In 1964, a 38-year-old housewife from Ohio hopped into a Cessna named 'Spirit of Columbus' and casually flew 22,860 miles across the globe. She dealt with radio failures, burning brakes, and freezing wings, completely dismantling every 1960s gender stereotype along the way.

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Tony Jannus piloted the world's very first scheduled commercial airline flight in 1914, transporting a single paying passenger across Tampa Bay in a trip that lasted a mere twenty-three minutes.

Orville Wright was piloting the plane during the first ever fatal aviation accident in 1908, completely surviving the crash while his passenger, a US Army lieutenant, was killed.

Leonardo da Vinci famously sketched the very first concept of a helicopter in the late fifteenth century, known as the aerial screw, but it was mathematically guaranteed to never actually leave the ground.

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