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Who is recognized as the first woman to fly solo around the world?

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Geraldine Mock, known as Jerrie, was a housewife from Columbus, Ohio, and the mother of three children when she decided to take on the world. Mock had studied aeronautical engineering at Ohio State University and held a pilot's licence, though her flying hours were modest by the standards of long-distance pilots. Mock bought a used single-engine Cessna 180, named it the Spirit of Columbus, and had it fitted with extra fuel tanks and long-range navigation radios. Newspapers nicknamed Mock the Flying Housewife, and crowds gathered wherever she landed.

AAmelia Earhart
BJacqueline Cochran
CBeryl Markham
DJerrie Mock
Correct Answer: Jerrie MockYour Answer: D

Explanation

Correct answer: Option D (Jerrie Mock). Mock took off from Columbus on 19 March 1964 and touched down there again on 17 April, after roughly 29,000 miles of flying around the globe. Why the other options are wrong: Option A (Amelia Earhart): Earhart vanished over the Pacific in July 1937 during her own attempt to circle the globe, so she never completed a round-the-world flight. Option B (Jacqueline Cochran): Cochran was a record-setting American pilot who became the first woman to break the sound barrier in 1953, an achievement of speed rather than circumnavigation. Option C (Beryl Markham): Markham, a British-Kenyan aviator, flew the Atlantic from east to west in 1936, a notable crossing but not a world circuit. Remember: solo circuit of the globe, 1964, Ohio: Mock.

Important Notes

  • Joan Merriam Smith completed her own round-the-world flight along a route near the equator in June 1964, a few weeks after Mock.
  • The first person of any gender to fly solo around the world was the American Wiley Post, in 1933.
  • Steve Fossett made the first solo, nonstop, non-refuelled flight around the world in 2005 in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer.

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