Grayson, 35, also intended to be the first woman to ever fly across the ocean to Europe, hiring two men to fly her there. Frances Grayson, a self-made real estate agent from New York, had dubbed her hulking seaplane the Dawn because this was a new day, a time for strong women like Grayson to choose their own path. Three hundred miles up the coast, another woman was waiting as well for the weather to break-with dreams, money and an airplane of her own. “Give us a weather break and we’ll take off then.”Įlder-brash and bold, at 24 years old, with her copilot, George Haldeman, at her side-was quickly the talk of New York. “Gas bought, runway ready, plane dandy, pilots OK,” Elder told reporters just after Labor Day at Roosevelt Field on Long Island, the same airstrip where Lindbergh had taken off four months earlier.
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