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Oct 13, 2026
Tail DraggerHOST
He had a good run.
Tail DraggerHOST
My research today drew from the Smithsonian's historical records, aviation historian Von Hardesty's work on the record flights of the 1930s, and the National Aeronautic Association's documentation of the circumnavigation.
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So he spent the war years working for a manufacturing company that was building a flight simulator, and he wrote about aviation for a magazine.
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That work led to a job with the National Aeronautic Association, where he produced a weekly radio show called Scramble.
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Its purpose was simple.
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It was designed to get young people excited about flying.
Tail DraggerHOST
That was the baseline they measured you against, not your logbook hours, not your ratings, whether you were the kind of pilot who kept going.
Tail DraggerHOST
The historical detail today draws primarily from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's documentation of the Vin Fiz collection and the records maintained by the National Aeronautic Association.
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Cal Rodgers put his wheels in the Pacific in November of nineteen eleven, and every cross-country you have ever flown carries a little of that flight inside it.
Tail DraggerHOST
That's the part worth holding on to.
Tail DraggerHOST
Source material on this record comes from the archives of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and the National Aeronautic Association, which certified Hughes' circumnavigation time.
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Keep the blue side up.
Katey WatsonGUEST
We also have two of her pilot's licenses, one from 1928 and one from 1930, though she actually got her pilot's license back in 1923.
Katey WatsonGUEST
In a couple sources, you'll see her credited as being the first US woman pilot to receive a pilot's license from the National Aeronautic Association, though she was definitely not the first woman pilot in the US to earn a pilot's license.
Katey WatsonGUEST
The first one is Harriet Quimby in 1911.
Katey WatsonGUEST
Some of my favorite, but also the materials a lot of people are most interested in, are some of those artifacts from her 1932 solo Atlantic flight.