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Whatever the reason for the crash, Americans mourned their beloved Harriet Quimby.
Mathilde Moisant, John Moisant's sister and Harriet Quimby's best friend and fellow student at the Moisant Aviation School, was the second woman in the U.S. to receive a pilot's license, F.A.I. certificate #44, on August 13, 1911.
With Harriet, she joined the Moisant International Aviators and she made her flying debut at the Nassau Boulevard Aviation Meet, held September 24-30. There she soared to the then-astounding height of 1200 feet, beating both Harriet Quimby and Hélène Dutrieu for the Rodman-Wanamaker altitude trophy.
Though of small stature and rather frail looking, Mathilde possessed a great deal of courage. On October 8, 1911, for instance, she foiled the attempts of the Nassau County Sheriff to arrest her for flying on a Sunday by flying from one airfield to another and then driving away in a car before the Sheriff could catch her. He failed to obtain a warrant for her arrest because the judge to whom he applied said he couldn't see why it should be wrong to fly an airplane on Sunday if it wasn't wrong to drive a car on Sunday.

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