Early Fliers Hail Women Aviators
Westhampton, Long Island, September 17, 1961. The widows of two early record-holding airmen were honored here today at the fourth annual meeting of the Early Fliers Club of Long Island. ... Mrs. Black was the wife of the late Eddie Schneider, holder of the junior transcontinental speed record for light planes in the late nineteen-twenties. He was killed in a mid-air collision at Floyd Bennett Field in 1940. ...
Source: New York Times; September 18, 1961
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