Jerrie Mock

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Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock (born November 22, 1925 in Newark , Ohio ; † September 30, 2014 in Quincy , Florida ) was an American pilot . Between March and April 1964, she was the first woman to fly solo around the earth. All the women who had completed a solo flight around the world before her had some of their airplanes transported on the ship because sections of the route seemed too long or too dangerous to them. Mock was the first woman to do a full flight around the world. It started in Columbus , Ohio, and flew a route via the Azores , Casablanca , Cairo , Karachi , Calcutta , Bangkok and Honolulu . At the time of the flight she was the mother of three children (4, 16 and 17 years old).

Their aircraft was a single-engine Cessna 180 that was named Spirit of Columbus . The historic air journey took 29 days, 11 hours and 59 minutes from takeoff to landing back in Columbus, Ohio, where it ended on April 17th. The plane is now in the National Air and Space Museum .

Publications

  • Jerrie Mock: Three-eight Charlie. Lippincott, Philadelphia 1970.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruce Weber: Jerrie Mock, First Solo Female Pilot to Circumnavigate the Globe, dies at 88.nytimes.com, October 4, 2014, accessed October 5, 2014
  2. ↑ Information on the website of the American aviation authority FAA , accessed on October 5, 2014 (PDF)
  3. ↑ Dean Narciso: Trailblazing woman pilot honored in bronze in Newark. dispatch.com, September 13, 2014, accessed October 5, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Mock, Jerrie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mock, Geraldine (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pilot
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , Ohio , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2014
Place of death Quincy , Florida , United States