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Madero. While there, Harriet became the first woman to fly over Mexico City.
  
She still contributed to "Leslie's Weekly" and wrote an account of her Mexico trip for that magazine. She also sent a very complete report of her next and perhaps most famous exploit - the first flight across the English Channel by a woman pilot. "Leslie's Weekly" and the London "Daily Mirror" were her sponsors.
  
Her manager and advisor was A. Leo Stevens, friend of the Wright brothers and famous balloon pilot. She sailed for Europe on March 7, 1912, and in France she acquired a new Bleriot 50 hp monoplane, which she had shipped to Dover.
  
Harriet was not to be the first woman to cross the English Channel by air, however; on April 2, 1912, an Englishwoman, Miss Eleanor Trehawke Davies, had crossed, but only as a passenger with the British flyer Gustav Hamel. Harriet continued, undaunted either by Miss Davies' flight or by the weather. The latter was so bad that she could not even test fly her new aircraft.
  
Sunday, April 14 was a lovely day, perfect for a Channel flight. But Harriet had made a personal rule never to fly on a