Aida de Acosta – first woman to pilot a powered aircraft

Aida de Acosta Aida D’Acosta Breckinridge piloted Alberto Santos-Dumont’s airship N° 9, La Baladeuse in 1903. On 27 June  1903, in Paris, when Acosta was nineteen, Brazilian pioneer aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont showed her how to operate his personal dirigible, “No. 9.” Santos-Dumont was the toast of Paris at the time, flying his dirigible downtown to … Read more