Talk:Harriet Quimby
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The external link "Centennial of Flight: Harriet Quimby" is broken at this time (server does not respond). If after a few days it is still broken please remove it. Thanks. --Dan East 04:20, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
- The link worked today, so I'm assuming that was a temporary outage. --Heath 69.174.65.58 00:16, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Death
In doing research for a graduate thesis almost 20 years ago, I read that Mr. Willard had lost a great deal of money backing the airshow, was essentially bankrupt, and caused the crash by leaping to his death, throwing the light aircraft out of balance and causing it to flip over, ejecting Quimby. I think my source was the Boston Globe newspaper for the following day. Dick Kimball (talk) 13:17, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
On a somewhat related note, I remember reading that she wasn't wearing a seatbelt that day because she had a morbid fear of being trapped in a burning airplane. So she was worried about the wrong "element". Cranston Lamont (talk) 17:11, 16 April 2008 (UTC)