Jerrie Mock

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Move Over Amelia, That’s My Grandma’s Place in History – Celebrating the First Woman to Fly Around the World

I should be in a small aircraft taking my first flying lesson in my grandmother’s honor, but thanks to the COVID-19 shut-downs, this dream is on pause.

Fifty-six years ago, my grandmother, Jerrie Mock, did something that the world still gets wrong – she was the first woman to fly around the world.