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Ruth Law

Ruth Bancroft Law, who received her pilot's license in 1912, was an accomplished flyer who had set the American nonstop cross-country record for men and women and the world nonstop cross-country for women in November 1916 while flying from Chicago to New York. She landed at Hornell, New York, where a young Lieutenant Henry H. "Hap" Arnold changed her airplane's spark plugs.

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