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🎂 Happy Birthday to aviation pioneer Thérèse Pelti 🎂 Happy Birthday to aviation pioneer Thérèse Peltier!

Born September 26, 1873, in France, Peltier was an accomplished sculptor before airplanes were even a practical reality. But when powered flight began capturing the world's imagination, she became one of the very first women to take part—and she wasn't content to remain a spectator for long.

On July 8, 1908, Peltier climbed aboard an aircraft with fellow sculptor and aviation pioneer Léon Delagrange in Milan, Italy. Their flight covered about 200 meters (656 feet), but its place in history was much larger: Peltier is recognized as the first woman to fly as a passenger in a heavier-than-air aircraft.

Remember, this was 1908. The Wright brothers' first powered flight had taken place less than five years earlier. Simply climbing aboard one of these fragile early machines required a considerable sense of adventure.

And apparently one flight wasn't enough.

Peltier soon learned to operate an airplane herself. Later that year, she made several solo flights in a Voisin biplane, including a flight at Turin lasting approximately two minutes and covering another 200 meters at about seven feet above the ground. Some historical accounts recognize her as the first woman to pilot an airplane, although the surviving record makes that particular "first" more difficult to establish conclusively.

What we can say is remarkable enough: Peltier was taking the controls of an airplane in 1908, when powered aviation itself was barely five years old.

Happy birthday, Thérèse Peltier, and thank you for helping write some of the earliest chapters in women's aviation history. ✈️

Aviation Trivia: The Voisin had a propellor, but it wasn't in the front! Where was it and why?
✈️ The Stinson L-5 Sentinel: Small Airplane, Big J ✈️ The Stinson L-5 Sentinel: Small Airplane, Big Job

It didn’t carry the firepower of a fighter or the bomb load of a heavy bomber, but the Stinson L-5 Sentinel became one of the most useful aircraft in the U.S. military inventory during World War II.

Developed from lessons learned with Stinson’s prewar Voyager series, the L-5 was purpose-built for military liaison work. The Army initially classified the new aircraft as the O-62, for “observation,” before redesignating it L-5 when the liaison category was introduced in 1942.

Light, unarmed, and exceptionally versatile, the Sentinel was designed to go where larger aircraft often couldn’t. Its short-field capability allowed crews to operate from rough, improvised strips close to the front, carrying out missions that included artillery spotting, reconnaissance, message and personnel transport, delivery of supplies, rescue, and casualty evacuation.

That last role became especially important. Later versions were modified to accommodate a litter patient, allowing wounded personnel to be flown out of remote areas where conventional ambulances or larger transports could not easily reach. Liaison pilots often operated from primitive fields and under combat conditions, making the little L-5 an important link between front-line troops and the larger Allied support network.

The Sentinel also proved its usefulness far beyond World War II. L-5s continued serving into the postwar years and saw further military use during the Korean War era.

Despite its modest size, the L-5 represented a major shift in how armies used aircraft. Aviation no longer had to operate only from established airfields or high above the battlefield. A light airplane could work directly alongside ground forces, carrying people, information, and urgently needed supplies almost wherever they were required.

And that history is more than static here at Yanks Air Museum. Our Flight Team has returned an L-5 Sentinel to the air, allowing one of these remarkable liaison aircraft to continue doing what it was built to do more than 80 years ago: fly.

Sometimes the aircraft with the biggest impact aren’t the biggest aircraft at all. ✈️
You've seen our staff show you around the planes t You've seen our staff show you around the planes themselves, but there's some history behind everything here! Have you ever seen someone with this patch?
From a zoom-in on that beautiful nose... tell us w From a zoom-in on that beautiful nose... tell us what kind of plane this is! 

📸 credit @roberttphotography
📅 On This Day in Aviation History — September 21, 📅 On This Day in Aviation History — September 21, 1956

Yes, an airplane really did once shoot itself down.

On September 21, 1956, Grumman test pilot Tom Attridge took an F11F-1 Tiger into the skies off Long Island for a high-speed test of its four 20 mm cannon. During the test, Attridge fired two bursts while descending at supersonic speed.

Then things got strange.

After leaving the guns at roughly 3,000 feet per second, the projectiles began losing velocity to aerodynamic drag while gravity pulled their trajectories downward. Meanwhile, the Tiger continued accelerating through its dive. The aircraft and its own gunfire eventually arrived at the same place at the same time: Attridge had caught up with the rounds he'd fired only seconds earlier.

Rounds struck the Tiger's nose, windshield and engine intake. Attridge initially thought he'd suffered a bird strike, but engine damage made reaching the Grumman airfield impossible. He ultimately crash-landed short of the runway. Although the aircraft was lost, Attridge survived the remarkable accident.

The incident sounds almost impossible until you consider the physics. It wasn't that the Tiger simply flew faster than a freshly fired cannon round. Rather, the rounds slowed considerably after being fired and followed a descending trajectory, while Attridge's aircraft continued its high-speed dive into their path. The result gave the F11F-1 one of the strangest distinctions in aviation history.

Have you seen OUR F11F-1 here at Yanks?
“Go fly the plane” they said. “It’ll be easy” th “Go fly the plane” they said. 

“It’ll be easy” they said. 

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Looks like Geebs changed his mind.

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