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Nobody knows exactly what date she first flew, though it was...

Nobody knows exactly what date she first flew, though it was likely sometime around September 21, 1908, soon after her arrival in Italy.  She was an unlikely candidate to be the first woman to solo in the history of heavier-than-air powered flight, as Thérèse Peltier was a French sculptress from Paris.  A close friend of another popular sculpture artist and itinerant aviator named Léon Delagrange, she was first photographed posing with Delagrange's Voison boxkite at Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris on September 17, 1908.  Thereafter, the two traveled to Italy together where  Delagrange did the unthinkable — on arrival at Turin, he invited her to fly in his aeroplane.  In turn, she too did the unthinkable too when she graciously accepted the offer. [x]

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