Evelyn Bobbi Trout: first all-night flight by a woman

She planned to be in the air for a month and even celebrated her 25th birthday in the sky. On February 10, 1929 she broke the record for the first all-night flight by a woman...

 

Bobbi Trout

 

Many children know what they want to be when they grow up. Evelyn ‘Bobbi’ Trout certainly did. At 12 years old, Evelyn looked up into the sky and saw her first aeroplane flying overhead. From this moment, she would never look back.  

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