Frankfort, Kansas, Index
September 25, 1930
Ruth Blaney Alexander's funeral services,
which were held at the W.T. Blaney home
in Irving, Kansas, yesterday afternoon, were
attended by one of the largest gatherings
ever before assembled at any funeral in this
county.
Friends from all over the state came to pay
their tributes to the noted young aviatrix
and there were more than two hundred
automobiles in the funeral procession.
The services were simple, though very
impressive and were in keeping with the
requests left by Ruth in one of her final
notes written to her parents before the
undertaking of one of her hazardous
flights.
Services were at the home and after a short
service by Reverend Ralph Rohr. She was
taken to the Greenwood Cemetery for
interment.
Pallbearers were former school mates,
Clyde Wells, Emery Grove, Elmer Wilson,
Vern Boyd, Earl Cantwell and William
Smercheck.
RUTH ALEXANDER DIES in one-stop flight from San Diego to New York shortly after takeoff on September 18, 1930 from Lindburg Field in San Diego. It was decided that the plane went into a tailspin and crashed. She moved from Kansas to San Diego in 1928 as Ruth Alexander leaving behind her husband Mack P. Alexander. She began taking flying lessons and in 1929 held the woman's world's record for altitude in a light plane. Soon after she qualified as a glider pilot. June 21, 1930 she married Ensign Robert Elliott. Her parents were Mrs. & Mrs. W. T. Blaney, Irving, Kansas.
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∼Pilot and adventurer, the 65th licensed woman pilot in the United States. On September 9, 1929, she had an introductory flight at Ryan Field in San Diego, Calif., and just over a year later she died in a horrific crash in that same city, having set several world records in those 53 weeks.
On Nov. 18, 1929, less than 24 hours after receiving her license, she took off from Lindbergh Field in San Diego in a Great Lakes biplane and continued climbing to what she believed was an altitude of better than 18,000 feet. She later was recognized as having established a new official altitude record for women in light planes, 15,718 feet.
On February 16, 1930, she qualified for a U.S. second-class glider license, launching from the slopes of Mount Soledad, near La Jolla, Calif. She followed Anne Morrow Lindbergh as the second woman in the country to achieve this, making a perfect flight using a primary glider, with her glide lasting 2 minutes, 33.4 seconds.
On July 4, 1930, she flew her Barling NB-3 light aircraft, sn 52, U.S. Department of Commerce registration number 880M) to 21,000 feet, setting an unofficial record. In early 1930 she became a glider instructor, the first woman in the country to do so.
On a July 11, 1930, flight from Lindbergh Field, she briefly lost consciousness at extreme altitude, but established a new world record in light planes -- for both men and women -- of 26,600 feet. The U.S. record held prior to her flight was set by D.S. Zimmerly, at an altitude of 24,074 feet over St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 16, 1930.
She died Sept. 18, 1930, when her NB-3 Barling struck a hillside shortly after takeoff on from Lindbergh Field, San Diego. She had been on a scheduled cross-country flight to New York City via Wichita, Kansas.
September 25, 1930
Ruth Blaney Alexander's funeral services,
which were held at the W.T. Blaney home
in Irving, Kansas, yesterday afternoon, were
attended by one of the largest gatherings
ever before assembled at any funeral in this
county.
Friends from all over the state came to pay
their tributes to the noted young aviatrix
and there were more than two hundred
automobiles in the funeral procession.
The services were simple, though very
impressive and were in keeping with the
requests left by Ruth in one of her final
notes written to her parents before the
undertaking of one of her hazardous
flights.
Services were at the home and after a short
service by Reverend Ralph Rohr. She was
taken to the Greenwood Cemetery for
interment.
Pallbearers were former school mates,
Clyde Wells, Emery Grove, Elmer Wilson,
Vern Boyd, Earl Cantwell and William
Smercheck.
RUTH ALEXANDER DIES in one-stop flight from San Diego to New York shortly after takeoff on September 18, 1930 from Lindburg Field in San Diego. It was decided that the plane went into a tailspin and crashed. She moved from Kansas to San Diego in 1928 as Ruth Alexander leaving behind her husband Mack P. Alexander. She began taking flying lessons and in 1929 held the woman's world's record for altitude in a light plane. Soon after she qualified as a glider pilot. June 21, 1930 she married Ensign Robert Elliott. Her parents were Mrs. & Mrs. W. T. Blaney, Irving, Kansas.
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∼Pilot and adventurer, the 65th licensed woman pilot in the United States. On September 9, 1929, she had an introductory flight at Ryan Field in San Diego, Calif., and just over a year later she died in a horrific crash in that same city, having set several world records in those 53 weeks.
On Nov. 18, 1929, less than 24 hours after receiving her license, she took off from Lindbergh Field in San Diego in a Great Lakes biplane and continued climbing to what she believed was an altitude of better than 18,000 feet. She later was recognized as having established a new official altitude record for women in light planes, 15,718 feet.
On February 16, 1930, she qualified for a U.S. second-class glider license, launching from the slopes of Mount Soledad, near La Jolla, Calif. She followed Anne Morrow Lindbergh as the second woman in the country to achieve this, making a perfect flight using a primary glider, with her glide lasting 2 minutes, 33.4 seconds.
On July 4, 1930, she flew her Barling NB-3 light aircraft, sn 52, U.S. Department of Commerce registration number 880M) to 21,000 feet, setting an unofficial record. In early 1930 she became a glider instructor, the first woman in the country to do so.
On a July 11, 1930, flight from Lindbergh Field, she briefly lost consciousness at extreme altitude, but established a new world record in light planes -- for both men and women -- of 26,600 feet. The U.S. record held prior to her flight was set by D.S. Zimmerly, at an altitude of 24,074 feet over St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 16, 1930.
She died Sept. 18, 1930, when her NB-3 Barling struck a hillside shortly after takeoff on from Lindbergh Field, San Diego. She had been on a scheduled cross-country flight to New York City via Wichita, Kansas.
Frankfort, Kansas, Index
September 25, 1930
Ruth Blaney Alexander's funeral services,
which were held at the W.T. Blaney home
in Irving, Kansas, yesterday afternoon, were
attended by one of the largest gatherings
ever before assembled at any funeral in this
county.
Friends from all over the state came to pay
their tributes to the noted young aviatrix
and there were more than two hundred
automobiles in the funeral procession.
The services were simple, though very
impressive and were in keeping with the
requests left by Ruth in one of her final
notes written to her parents before the
undertaking of one of her hazardous
flights.
Services were at the home and after a short
service by Reverend Ralph Rohr. She was
taken to the Greenwood Cemetery for
interment.
Pallbearers were former school mates,
Clyde Wells, Emery Grove, Elmer Wilson,
Vern Boyd, Earl Cantwell and William
Smercheck.
RUTH ALEXANDER DIES in one-stop flight from San Diego to New York shortly after takeoff on September 18, 1930 from Lindburg Field in San Diego. It was decided that the plane went into a tailspin and crashed. She moved from Kansas to San Diego in 1928 as Ruth Alexander leaving behind her husband Mack P. Alexander. She began taking flying lessons and in 1929 held the woman's world's record for altitude in a light plane. Soon after she qualified as a glider pilot. June 21, 1930 she married Ensign Robert Elliott. Her parents were Mrs. & Mrs. W. T. Blaney, Irving, Kansas.
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∼Pilot and adventurer, the 65th licensed woman pilot in the United States. On September 9, 1929, she had an introductory flight at Ryan Field in San Diego, Calif., and just over a year later she died in a horrific crash in that same city, having set several world records in those 53 weeks.
On Nov. 18, 1929, less than 24 hours after receiving her license, she took off from Lindbergh Field in San Diego in a Great Lakes biplane and continued climbing to what she believed was an altitude of better than 18,000 feet. She later was recognized as having established a new official altitude record for women in light planes, 15,718 feet.
On February 16, 1930, she qualified for a U.S. second-class glider license, launching from the slopes of Mount Soledad, near La Jolla, Calif. She followed Anne Morrow Lindbergh as the second woman in the country to achieve this, making a perfect flight using a primary glider, with her glide lasting 2 minutes, 33.4 seconds.
On July 4, 1930, she flew her Barling NB-3 light aircraft, sn 52, U.S. Department of Commerce registration number 880M) to 21,000 feet, setting an unofficial record. In early 1930 she became a glider instructor, the first woman in the country to do so.
On a July 11, 1930, flight from Lindbergh Field, she briefly lost consciousness at extreme altitude, but established a new world record in light planes -- for both men and women -- of 26,600 feet. The U.S. record held prior to her flight was set by D.S. Zimmerly, at an altitude of 24,074 feet over St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 16, 1930.
She died Sept. 18, 1930, when her NB-3 Barling struck a hillside shortly after takeoff on from Lindbergh Field, San Diego. She had been on a scheduled cross-country flight to New York City via Wichita, Kansas.
September 25, 1930
Ruth Blaney Alexander's funeral services,
which were held at the W.T. Blaney home
in Irving, Kansas, yesterday afternoon, were
attended by one of the largest gatherings
ever before assembled at any funeral in this
county.
Friends from all over the state came to pay
their tributes to the noted young aviatrix
and there were more than two hundred
automobiles in the funeral procession.
The services were simple, though very
impressive and were in keeping with the
requests left by Ruth in one of her final
notes written to her parents before the
undertaking of one of her hazardous
flights.
Services were at the home and after a short
service by Reverend Ralph Rohr. She was
taken to the Greenwood Cemetery for
interment.
Pallbearers were former school mates,
Clyde Wells, Emery Grove, Elmer Wilson,
Vern Boyd, Earl Cantwell and William
Smercheck.
RUTH ALEXANDER DIES in one-stop flight from San Diego to New York shortly after takeoff on September 18, 1930 from Lindburg Field in San Diego. It was decided that the plane went into a tailspin and crashed. She moved from Kansas to San Diego in 1928 as Ruth Alexander leaving behind her husband Mack P. Alexander. She began taking flying lessons and in 1929 held the woman's world's record for altitude in a light plane. Soon after she qualified as a glider pilot. June 21, 1930 she married Ensign Robert Elliott. Her parents were Mrs. & Mrs. W. T. Blaney, Irving, Kansas.
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∼Pilot and adventurer, the 65th licensed woman pilot in the United States. On September 9, 1929, she had an introductory flight at Ryan Field in San Diego, Calif., and just over a year later she died in a horrific crash in that same city, having set several world records in those 53 weeks.
On Nov. 18, 1929, less than 24 hours after receiving her license, she took off from Lindbergh Field in San Diego in a Great Lakes biplane and continued climbing to what she believed was an altitude of better than 18,000 feet. She later was recognized as having established a new official altitude record for women in light planes, 15,718 feet.
On February 16, 1930, she qualified for a U.S. second-class glider license, launching from the slopes of Mount Soledad, near La Jolla, Calif. She followed Anne Morrow Lindbergh as the second woman in the country to achieve this, making a perfect flight using a primary glider, with her glide lasting 2 minutes, 33.4 seconds.
On July 4, 1930, she flew her Barling NB-3 light aircraft, sn 52, U.S. Department of Commerce registration number 880M) to 21,000 feet, setting an unofficial record. In early 1930 she became a glider instructor, the first woman in the country to do so.
On a July 11, 1930, flight from Lindbergh Field, she briefly lost consciousness at extreme altitude, but established a new world record in light planes -- for both men and women -- of 26,600 feet. The U.S. record held prior to her flight was set by D.S. Zimmerly, at an altitude of 24,074 feet over St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 16, 1930.
She died Sept. 18, 1930, when her NB-3 Barling struck a hillside shortly after takeoff on from Lindbergh Field, San Diego. She had been on a scheduled cross-country flight to New York City via Wichita, Kansas.
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