Silent film actress Ruth Elder sought fame as the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air, using her Stinson Detroiter American Girl. She and her co-pilot George Haldeman survived a ditching on their October 11, 1927, flight.
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Ruth Elder was an aviatrix of the 1920s and 1930s who attempted a transatlantic flight with George Haldeman in 1927.
Type: Photograph
Image Date: 1927
Credit: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
