While the Tuskegee Airmen have become icons in the history of American aviation, fewer people know the story of Bessie ...

Bessie Coleman was the first ... Throughout her flying career, Coleman saved enough money that she was able to purchase her own plane, a Jenny – JN-4 with an OX-5 engine, according to the ...

On April 23, 1926, Bessie Coleman made the last payment on her new airplane and arranged for the second-hand Jenny to be flown to Jacksonville, Florida, site of her next air show. “Brave Bessie ...

Gaining advantage, one pilot would shoot another out of the air like skeet. That road O’Hare is on? It’s named for Bessie Coleman, who 100 years ago became the first Black woman pilot in ...

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13, for the new permanent exhibit "Brave Bessie ... and George Coleman in Atlanta in 1892. Visitors to the Atlanta Museum can explore a 2/3-scale model Curtiss JN "Jenny" plane, watch footage ...

Related video above: Arkansas Air and Military Museum celebrates Bessie Coleman What does Bessie Coleman have in common with Tina Turner, Jane Goodall and Madam C.J. Walker? As of Wednesday ...

During a practice for a May Day celebration in Jacksonville, Florida, her plane – operated ... will discover Bessie’s story and be inspired,” Gigi Coleman said. Top image: A Bessie Coleman ...