Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden
“Thaden teamed up with Frances Marsalis and set another endurance record by flying a Curtiss Thrush biplane over Long Island, New York for 196 hours. The pair made seventy-eight air-to-air refueling maneuvers. Food and water were lowered to the two by means of a rope from another aircraft. The event gained national attention and the pair made a series of live radio broadcasts from the aircraft.
In 1937, she became the National Secretary of the National Aeronautics Association. Just prior to her retirement, she returned to Beech Aircraft Corporation as a factory representative and demonstration pilot.”
Anyone who stay aloft for 186 hrs. and refuel while in the air, eat and go the bathroom is famous in my book.
Ok! YOu get the points! (But not for the other guy!)