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Celebrating Jerrie Mock, the First Woman to Fly Around the World

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Published Date:
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:50:50 +0000
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Aviation
Cessna
Jerrie Mock
Three-Eight Charlie
Description:
On April 3, 1964, Jerrie Mock stood next to her Cessna 180 at Dhahran Airport in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The crowd of men before her looked puzzled and then one of them dashed forward to look into the cockpit. In her book Three-Eight Charlie, Mock recalled: “His white-kaffiyeh-covered head nodded vehemently, and he&#160; &#160;<a href="http://blog.nasm.si.edu/aviation/celebrating-jerrie-mock-the-first-woman-to-fly-around-the-world/">...Continue Reading</a>
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