Geraldine L. "Jerrie" Mock poses beside the nose of her Cessna 180 Spirit of Columbus at Port Columbus Airport, Columbus, Ohio, March 19, 1964, immediately before she takes off on her record setting solo flight around world in single engine plane. She was first woman to do so.

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2007-10125

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Photo by Sheldon Ross, Columbus Dispatch photographer

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National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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