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First woman who got pilot’s license.

Raymonde de laroche (22nd august 1882 – 18 july 1919) Elise raymonde de laroche was a French pilot and the first woman in the world to receive an aeroplane pilot’s license. She had been given the license on march 8, 1910. De laroche’s flight is often cited as the first by a women in a powered heavier-than-aircraft. In June 1919 de laroche set two women’s altitude records, one at 15,700 feet (4,800 m), and also the women’s distance record, at 201 miles(323 km). during world war I, she served as a military driver, chauffeuring officers from the rear zones to the front under fire.  

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