100 Days - 25
Day 25
Clipped wings
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| Negotiating Table. It's complicated. © Susanne Palzer, 2017 |
06 October 2019
Michel Barnier does not see a way forward in the Brexit negotiations.
Melli Beese (1886-1925) was Germany's first female pilot. First artist, then passionate aviator, she broke down many barriers, and in 1912 opened her own flying school and aircraft factory in Berlin, with her French husband Charles Boutard. Only two years later the outbreak of WWI forced them to close the school and saw them interned as alien subjects. Melli Beese never recovered from the dramatic years and experiences that followed and committed suicide in 1925.
Her farewell note read "Flying is essential, living is not."
Her farewell note read "Flying is essential, living is not."