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In 1912, Law became the fifth woman in the U.S. to earn a pilot's license. During her flying career she set numerous records, including one for women’s altitude, and another for distance by either a male or female aviator in a flight from Chicago to New York in 1916. #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 16, 2022.

Ruth Law (1887-1970) was inspired to fly by her brother Rodman Law, a parachutist and stuntman. Orville Wright refused to train her because he believed women were not mechanically minded, so she instead persuaded Harry Atwood & Arch Freeman of Saugus, MA, to instruct her. #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 16, 2022.

On Nov. 22, 1935, a #PanAm Martin M-130 named China Clipper, lifted off and strained into the sky, threading its way under and over two partially built bridges as thousands cheered from shore for the first scheduled flight across the Pacific Ocean. #DefunctThursday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.

Pan Am’s Pacific route was extended to Macao and Hong Kong in 1937, making the total flying distance from San Francisco 8,746 miles. #DefunctThursday #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.

Tiny Wake Island was the vital link across the Pacific, as it broke the 2,690 miles from Midway to Guam into manageable segments. When first established in 1935, the route terminated in Manila, a whopping 8,210-mile one-way journey. #DefunctThursday #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.

Prior to 1935, the 2,400 miles from San Francisco to Honolulu represented the world’s greatest water gap along any viable aerial trade route. The next stop, Midway Island, lay 1,300 miles northwest of Hawai’i. #DefunctThursday #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.

In the early 1930s, Pan American Airways began planning for service across the oceans. San Francisco, which is 160 miles closer to Hawai’i than Los Angeles, was the chosen terminus for the Pacific route that required multiple island stops. #DefunctThursday #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 11, 2022.

“First Flights: Early Women Aviators and their Aircraft” is on display post-security in Terminal 3 and online at: https://t.co/cFAFpvsWKR #EarlyWomenAviators #AvGeek #AviationHistory #aviator #pilot #womeninaviation This tweet was posted on August 10, 2022.

It was reported that while at the school, Lillian Atwater caught a seagull in a net while her husband flew a hydroplane. She never earned a pilot’s license, and it remains unknown if she continued to fly after attending the school. #EarlyWomenAviators #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 10, 2022.

Lillian Janeway Atwater (1890–1937) was the first woman to fly a hydroplane in the United States. In 1911, she began hydroplane pilot training with her husband William Atwater at the Curtiss School of Aviation in North Island, San Diego. #EarlyWomenAviators #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 10, 2022.

“Going the Distance: Endurance Aircraft Engines and Propellers of the 1910s and 20s” is on display, pre-security in the Aviation Museum and Library and online at: https://t.co/DGnv8hSoAF #EnduranceEngines #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on August 09, 2022.

The Paragon Striker propeller on display was designed for use with a Curtiss OX-5 engine, like the one in this JN-4 Jenny, and was produced of oak by the American Propeller and Manufacturing Company (APMC), of Baltimore, Maryland. #EnduranceEngines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on August 09, 2022.