Today in History: August 22
![Mrs. Frances Marsalis and Mrs. Louise Thaden being greeted after alighting from their plane at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, on August 22, 1932, when they set a new women's endurance flight record with 196 hours, 6 minutes in the air eclipsing by far the old record of 123 hours set in 1931 by Bobby Trout and Edna May Cooper. Left to Right: John Runger, who flew in the refueling plane; Mrs. Thaden: Charles S. (Casey) Jones, noted flier: Mrs. Marsalis, and Stewart Reiss, pilot of the refueling plane.]({"default":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBvSIrM.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=773&y=440"} "1932 - Women's endurance flight record - AP Photo") |
| Left to Right: John Runger, Mrs. Thaden: Charles S. (Casey) Jones, Mrs. Marsalis, and Stewart Reiss, |
Mrs. Frances Marsalis
and Mrs. Louise Thaden set a new women's endurance flight record with 196
hours, 6 minutes in the air eclipsing by far the old record of 123 hours set in
1931 by Bobby Trout and Edna May Cooper.
In the above picture,
they are being greeted after alighting from their plane at Roosevelt Field,
Long Island, New York, on August 22, 1932
© AP Photo
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