Katherine Stinson & Dario Resta (photo)

the fourth woman in the United States to obtain a pilot's license, which she earned on July 24, 1912, at the age of 21. Initially, she planned to get her license and earn money she earned from exhibition flying to pay for her music lessons. However, she found she liked flying so much that she gave up her piano career and decided to fly instead. She took her flying lessons from the well-known aviator Max Lille, who initially refused to teach her because she was female. But she persuaded him to give her a trial lesson and was so good that she flew alone after only four hours of instruction. A year after receiving her license, she began exhibition flying. On the exhibition circuit, she was known as the "Flying Schoolgirl."