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Tiny Broadwick Pioneer of Aviation (Lesson Plan)

Tiny Broadwick was a daring young woman who parachuted for the first time from a hot air balloon in 1908, when she was fifteen years old. During her lifetime she made over 1100 jumps from balloons and airplanes. She is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for first person to perform a “premeditated free-fall” and first women to parachute from an airplane into water.

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Tiny Broadwick Lesson Guide

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tinybroadwick bio

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