CIA NOTABLE Part 22, Famous Females   1784-06-04 First flight with a female passenger. Mme Elisabeth Thible   Pilot: Mr. Fleurant Copilot:     Lyon.   Witnessed by Gustav III, King of Sweden. Balloon named in his honour   1785-06-29 First English woman to ascend. Passenger Mrs Letitia A. Sage   Pilot: George Biggin Copilot:     London (Saint George's field) to Harrow Common   1798-11-10 First all female crew. Paris   Pilot: Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin (Miss Labrosse) Copilot: Miss Henry   Also claimed to have been first woman to parachute (1802-09, England. Rechs)   1810-06-21 First woman to die in a balloon accident.   Pilot: Marie Madeleine Sophie Armant Blanchard Copilot:     Fireworks under basket set balloon on fire   Tethered ascent on Champ de Mars. Wedding of Napoleon and Marie-Louise   1815-08-25 First woman parachutist, Elisa Garnerin   Pilot: Elisabeth Garnerin Copilot:     Elisa Garnerin, ascends at Champ de Mars, Paris   May have been (only) a balloon flight, not parachute jump   1913-10-12 First woman in Gordon Bennett   Pilot: Rene Rumpelmayer Copilot: Mme (Gustave) Goldschmidt   8th Gordon Bennett race 1913. 6th place   Paris (Jardin des Tuileries), France to   1931-08-05 Made her last balloon flight, 63 years old.   Pilot: Käte Paulus Copilot:     Made 510 balloon flights 1868-1935   Made 150 parachute jumps from balloon   1934-10-23 First woman in the stratosphere   Pilot: Jeanette Ridlon Piccard Copilot: Jean Félix Piccard (1884-1963)   Altitude research flight   From Dearborn, Michigan to Cadiz, Ohio   1979-10-01 Longest flight by female pilot. Pollution research   Pilot: Vera Simons Copilot: Rudolph Engleman, Fred Hyde, Randy Birch   Tillamook, Oregon sept 26 to Spencerville, Ohio Oct 1. Duration not verified   Pollution research   1983-06-25 "First female pilot in ""modern"" Gordon Bennett"   Pilot: Nini Boesman Copilot: Gerrit Visscher   Place de la Concorde, Paris to Orly. 8th place   1984-07-07 Duration record   Pilot: Héléne Dorigny Copilot: Michel Arnould   Germaine to Le Mele-sur-Sarthe, France   1984-10-13 First all female crew in Gordon Bennett   Pilot: Nikki Caplan Copilot: Jane C. Buckless   Airport Kloten, Zürich to Villefrance. 11th place   1986-08-29 First solo crossing of the Channel by a woman   Pilot: Jacqueline Sax-Van Havere Copilot: Solo flight   Capel-le-Ferme, Folkstone, Kent, UK to Oye Plage, Calais, France   1990-09-21 First all female crew in Gas Balloon World Championships   Pilot: Jana Vodsedalkova Copilot: Olina Vodsedalkova   Tyndall, South Dakota, USA. 11th place   1993-10-13 First female pilot to make over 1 000 flights in gas balloons.   Pilot: Helma Sjuts Copilot:     1994-02-19 Distance record, female   Pilot: Karen L. Gould Copilot:     McAfee, Caliche, Amarillo, Texas to Beatrice, Nebraska   Pilot fell out during landing   1998-03-01 Gas Balloon Pilot licence holder during 50 years   Pilot: Nini Boesman Copilot:     1999-10-06 43rd Gordon Bennett race 1999. 2nd place   Pilot: Danielle Francoeur Copilot:     Albuquerque, New Mexico to Goodman, Mississippi   2001-06-30 2nd World Air Games. First WAG Gas balloon event. 1st place   Pilot: Klaus Weisgerber Copilot: Astrid Gerhardt   First female pilot (copilot) to win a major (World) event   Seville, Spain