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to Washington, D.C. and became a draftsman with the Aeronautical Division of the U.S. Navy. She also did some exhibition flying for the Liberty Loan drive.

Ruth Law, who enjoyed one of the longest and most colorful flying careers of her day, probably became interested in flying because of her brother. He was Rodman Law, the "Human Fly," who once climbed a tall building in New York and then was shot out of a cannon wearing a parachute. 

Ms. Law enrolled in the Burgess Flying School in Boston in late June 1912. On her first plane ride, on July 1, she saw Harriet Quimby fall to her death. Undaunted, however, she made her first solo flight on August 1, She also received hydroaeroplane instruction and flew in her first exhibition in September.

After she received her license on November 12, she contracted to fly for the Clarendon Hotel at Sea Breeze, Florida, for the winter. There she made daily exhibition flights and carried passengers. During the summer of 1913 she did the same at a Newport, Rhode Island, resort. By this time she had bought her own Wright airplane.

On November 6, 1913, on Staten Island, Ms. Law made a