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Your question was rhetorical, but for anyone that doesn’t know: it was Jerrie Mock https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrie_Mock https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by sevg 1y ago
Your question was rhetorical, but for anyone that doesn’t know: it was Jerrie Mock
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrie_Mock https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrie_Mock
- cameldrv 1y agoIt was actually Richarda Morrow-Tait, according to the Amelia Erhart criteria, i.e. a male navigator is allowed. Similarly no one had ever heard of Albert Cushing Read, Walter Hinton, or Elmer Fowler Stone, the first men to fly the Atlantic, or John Alcock and Arthur Brown, the first men to fly the Atlantic nonstop, but everyone has heard of Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly the Atlantic nonstop solo.
- 6031769 1y agoIn the UK at least Alcock and Brown are quite well known. I would estimate public knowledge of them here is on a par with Lindbergh.
- Yeul 1y agoI think every country has their own aviation heroes. The Netherlands has Fokker for example.
- AStonesThrow 1y agoThe Wikipedia account of Morrow-Tait's “circumnavigation” is passing strange, particularly the way it was interrupted for 5 months but “resumed” with a completely different aircraft and navigator? I think some janky editor messed with it last year and nobody has noticed or checked the sources. And concerns/mockery of “the flying housewife” alone in close quarters with a handsome navigator, gave way to an affair while en route, a love-child, and divorce? And there is a post on the Talk page from someone claiming to be that child... bonkers! And Wikipedia says [unsourced] they “reached Japan [having flown northeast from Calcutta and Vietnam] but were denied permission to cross Russia [known in the 1940s as the Soviet Union]” — so what parts of “Russia” were east of Japan in 1948?
- lucozade 1y ago> what parts of “Russia” were east of Japan in 1948 As it says she flew from Japan to the Aleutian islands, it would have probably been safer to fly via the Kamchatka peninsular instead of direct.
- thaumasiotes 1y ago> I think some janky editor messed with it last year and nobody has noticed or checked the sources. Wikipedia isn't concerned with that kind of thing. Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_configuration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_configuration , where the article states "R and S refer to rectus and sinister, Latin for right and left, respectively", despite the facts that (1) it's not like the Latin word for right is obscure; (2) the claim was highlighted as false (in a different section of the article, where it still also appears) on the talk page in 2018.
- AStonesThrow 1y agoBut this is truly the correct usage, despite your original research; you (and the nobodies on Talk page) should have referred to the reliable secondary sources instead. Chemists are better at Latin than you gave them credit for. https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/z1ms9-63w28 https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/z1ms9-63w28 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recto_and_verso#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recto_and_verso#Etymology
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- tomhow 1y ago> No, you're just a moron. Please edit swipes out of comments. It's one of the first and most important things we ask for in the Comments section of the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- joarv0249nw 1y agoMagellan is know for first circumnavigating the earth, but he died in the Philippines, about half way around.
- wat10000 1y agoHe had been to the Philippines before, coming from the other way.
- drewbug 1y agoWow, I never realized he had sailed to the same longitude before heading West! Apparently he made it as far Ambon Island in Indonesia, so he indeed circled the globe in nine years starting and ending in the East Indies.