Sloppy article.

the round the world solo flight, Geraldine Mock. Yes, sloppy.

I suspect that something was edited and changed the meaning -- I can't believe someone would have thought that Earhart was the first female aviator.

with a name like that it seems destiny to fly around the world

Good luck to her and wishing a much better trip than the elder Amelia Earhart

The history of early flying is filled with amazing and courageous women, but it wasn't until 1964 that Jerrie Mock flew solo around the world.

I wish Amelia lots of luck and hope she makes it into the annals of women's flying history.

If anyone is interested:

1928 - June 17 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the Atlantic -- Lou Gordon and Wilmer Stultz did most of the flying

1929 - August - first Women's Air Derby is held, and Louise Thaden wins, Gladys O'Donnell takes second place and Amelia Earhart takes third

1929 - Florence Lowe Barnes - Pancho Barnes - becomes the first woman stunt pilot in motion pictures (in "Hell's Angels&quot

1929 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first president of the Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots.

1930 - May 5-24 - Amy Johnson becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia

1930 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh becomes the first woman to earn a glider pilot license

1931 - Ruth Nichols fails in her attempt to fly solo across the Atlantic, but she breaks the world distance record flying from California to Kentucky

1931 - Katherine Cheung becomes the first woman of Chinese ancestry to earn a pilot's license

1932 - May 20-21 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

1932 - Ruthy Tu becomes first woman pilot in the Chinese Army

1934 - Helen Richey becomes the first woman pilot hired by a regularly schedule airline, Central Airlines

1934 - Jean Batten is the first woman to fly round trip England to Australia

1935 - January 11-23 - Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to the American mainland

1936 - Beryl Markham becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic east to west

1936 - Louise Thaden and Blance Noyes beat male pilots also entered in the Bendix Trophy Race, the first victory of women over men in a race which both men and women could enter

1937 - July 2 - Amelia Earhart lost over Pacific

1938 - Hanna Reitsch becomes the first woman to fly a helicopter and the first woman to be licensed as a helicopter pilot

1939 - Willa Brown, first African American commercial pilot and first African American woman officer in the Civil Air Patrol, helps form the National Airmen's Association of America to help open up the U.S. Armed Forces to African American men

1939 - January 5 - Amelia Earhart declared legally dead

1939 - September 15 - Jacqueline Cochran sets an international speed record; the same year, she is the first woman to make a blind landing

1941 - July 1 - Jacqueline Cochrane is the first woman to ferry a bomber across the Atlantic

1941 - Marina Raskova appointed by Soviet Union high command to organize regiments of women pilots

1942 - Nancy Harkness Love and Jackie Cochran organize women flying units and training detachments

1943 - Women make up more than 30% of the work force in the aviation industry

1943 - Love's and Cochran's units are merged into the Women Airforce Service Pilots and Jackie Cochran becomes the Director of Women Pilots -- WASPs flew more than 60 million miles before the program ended in December 1944, with only 38 lives lost of 1830 volunteers and 1074 graduates -- these pilots were seen as civilians and were only recognized as military personnel in 1977

1945 - Melitta Schiller is awarded the Iron Cross and Military Flight Badge in Germany

1949 - Richarda Morrow-Tait landed in Croydon, England, after her round-the-world flight, with navigator Michael Townsend, the first such flight for a woman -- it took one year and one day with a 7 week stop in India to replace the plane's engine and 8 months in Alaska to raise funds to replace her plane

1953 - Jacqueline (Jackie) Cochran becomes first woman to break the sound barrier

1964 - March 19 - Geraldine (Jerrie) Mock is the first woman to pilot a plane solo around the world

She was a Soviet fighter pilot from 1941-43

sorry I missed her.

your list had at least four aviators I was unaware of

for her pilot's license.

She was the first American to earn an international aviation license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. She was a very inspiring woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman

Geraldine Mock was another brave and inspiring woman who flew solo across the world in 1964. This was in the early 1960's when women's roles were very restricted here in the US. People forget how stifling it was for young women, at that time. Jerrie Mock was a true inspiration.

Here is a link to an article about Jerrie Mock that was just in our local electric coop magazine. Very interesting.

http://www.countryliving.coop/departments/flight/

Good luck and safe flying to Amelia Rose Earhart.