Sun, Mar 27, 2011
Items Detail Flights Taken By Women Early In Aviation
History
Clara Adams, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, was a passenger on
many first flights in early aviation history, including the
transatlantic flight of the Graf Zeppelin in 1928 and the inaugural
flight of the Hindenburg. A number of artifacts documenting Clara's
travels have recently been donated to the International Women's Air
& Space Museum. Donated items include a Hindenburg passenger
booklet from the inaugural flight, a hand-written description of
the Graf Zeppelin from the 1928 flight, Adams' lecture notes and
numerous photographs and other memorabilia. The museum is preparing
the artifacts for display later this year.
Adams and Lady Grace Drummond-Hay, who flew as a correspondent
for a worldwide news service, were Zeppelin passengers together on
several occasions and strong supporters of this mode of
transportation. In 1929, Drummond-Hay was the only woman to fly
around the world on the Graf Zeppelin. That flight is the subject
of "Farewell", a documentary from the Netherlands playing at this
year's Cleveland International Film Festival. The International
Women's Air & Space Museum is a Community Partner for the
film.
When Adams bought her round-trip ticket on the Graf Zeppelin it
was the first air ticket to cross the Atlantic sold to a woman and
it cost $3,000, about three years' salary for an average worker at
that time. Adams & Drummond-Hay were both on the inaugural
flight of the Hindenburg in 1936. After the Hindenburg crashed in
New Jersey in 1937, Adams purchased a ticket for a next flight that
never took place in support of the company. In 1939 she set a world
record as the first woman passenger to complete an around-the-world
airplane flight, on Pan Am Dixie Clipper's inaugural flight. Adams
logged more than 150,000 maiden voyage miles during her
lifetime. The artifacts relating to Clara Adams'
historic flights and speaking engagements throughout her life were
presented to the museum by the granddaughter of Adams' good friend,
Jessie Chamberlin. Chamberlin was president of the Women's
International Association of Aeronautics in the 1940s.
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