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Quimby learned to fly at the Moisant Aviation School.

Alfred Moisant, John Moisant's brother, was her flight instructor at the Moisant Aviation School.

Quimby received her pilot's license after thirty-three flight lessons and two test flights.

The number of licensed female pilots increased to 200 total by 1930 and between 700 to 800 by 1935.

When an airplane is pitched forward it will enter into a rapid descent. This unexpected forward pitch could be due to the lowering of the elevators of the plane.

Written on these stamps was "Harriet Quimby: Pioneer Pilot."

To complete her flight across the English Channel she purchased previously a Bleriot 50 monoplane.

Harriet Quimby died at age 37 and was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York. Not added to the article yet...

Harriet Quimby is featured in Fearless: Harriet Quimby, a Life Without Limit. She was born into a poor family and reinvented herself as a journalist, aviator, and celebrity. This book is a biography of Quimby's life and is used as a piece of feminist history.

Harriet Quimby is featured in In Their Own Words: Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation to demonstrate the development of women in American aviation after her contributions to the field between the time of the Wright brothers and World War I.

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