Ruth Bancroft Law

Ruth Law ( born March 21, 1887 in Lynn, Massachusetts, † December 1, 1970 ) was an American aviation pioneer.

Law 1912 learned to fly at the Burgess Flying School in Atlantic (now Boston, Massachusetts); while she made her first flight on July 5, and already on 12 August she flew for the first time alone. On November 12, she received her pilot's license and was the fifth licensed pilot and the first female pilot in Florida. In the same year she bought her first airplane from Orville Wright. In this plane, she completed one of the first female pilots a night flight. Another novelty was aviation skills in 1914 when her brother, the stuntman Rodman Law, jumped with a parachute from their plane. Still flying sensation was a double loop, they in Seabreeze ( Daytona Beach today ) vorführte 1915. Your livelihood, she earned during this period with passenger flights on the beach.

In November 1916 she broke the course record at the time with a flight over about 950 miles from Chicago to New York City. Because of this power, a banquet was in New York City from the "Aero Club America " and the " New York Civic Forum " was held, which was attended by Robert Edwin Peary also besides Law, Roald Amundsen and the sister of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.

1917 her application for military combat operations negatively decided (this was only men are allowed ); However, she was allowed to wear a Militärunifom in a row. She gathered donations for the Red Cross and Liberty Bonds. After the war, she founded Ruth Law's Flying Circus; there spectacular stunts were presented with three aircraft. After their pilot Laura Bromwell was killed in a crash killed, she had to quit in 1922 of its flying career on her husband Charles Oliver statement.

Ruth Law died in 1970.