Display Status:
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Collection Item Summary:
View of Matilde J. Moisant, looking over her shoulder towards the camera, sitting in the cockpit of Blériot XI type monoplane, which in seen in one-quarter right rear view. Barograph was mounted for her attempt at the Wanamaker Trophy awarded for altitude flights. She flew to a height of 1200 feet on September 24, 1911 at Nassau Boulevard Airport, Garden City, Long Island, NY.
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Topic
- Aeronautics
- Airplanes
- Women air pilots