Recover From Spin
On a ride during the winter of 1931 her plane was in a flat spin and would have crashed. She climbed out of the cockpit preparing to parachute but her weight on the wing tilted the aircraft enough to take her out of the spin. She climbed back into the cockpit and regained control at 200 feet. This got her a job at Viking as a spokeswoman. In 1931 she also received her transport license.
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“Hamlet: Why was he sent into England?
Grave-digger: Why, because a was mad. A shall recover his wits there; or if a do not, ‘tis no great matter there.
Hamlet: Why?
Grave-digger: ‘Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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