helune Dutrieu

Helene Dutrieu (1877 - 1961), Belgian world champion cyclist, automobile racer, stunt driver, cyclist and motorcyclist and pioneer aviator. On 25th November 1910, Dutrieu became the fourth woman in the world and the first Belgian woman, licensed as an aeroplane pilot, she was nicknamed Girl Hawk. Photograph taken after her flight on 3rd September 1910, flying early in the morning in her biplane with her mechanic Beaud as a passenger, non-stop from Blankenberge to Bruges and back, the first overland flight between two Belgian cities by a female pilot

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