Fay Gillis Wells
Fay Gillis Wells, a pioneer aviator and journalist died last week. She was 94. An avid pilot most of her life, Wells was the first woman flier to parachute from an airplane to save her life in 1929. She covered the Soviet Union in the 1930s as a journalist and was allowed to fly Soviet aircraft...
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