Kwon Ki-ok
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Kwon Ki-ok was a Korean aviator. She is the first Korean female pilot and one of the first female pilots to fly in China. Her name in Chinese is Quan Jiyu. Kwon went into exile in China during the Jap
Kwon in China, 1935
Art Smith (pilot)
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Arthur Roy Smith was an American pilot. After Charles Ames, he was the second overnight mail service pilot to die on duty.
Kwon Ki-ok
…Elementary School from 1913 to 1918. There, she was inspired to learn to fly after seeing a 1917 aerobatics demonstration by American stunt pilot Art Smith. The following year, she participated in the March First Movement, for which she spent three weeks in jail; after her release, she assisted with…
Art Smith 1915
Art Smith posing in the muzzle of a 12-inch mortar at the Presidio of San Francisco during the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition
Airmail pilot Arthur Roy Smith in 1924
Art Smith with his mother in Honolulu, Hawaii, aboard the Siberia Maru