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twenty-minute moonlit flight, becoming the first woman to fly at night.

Throughout 1914 and 1915 Ms. Law made exhibition flights at resorts and meets throughout the East. She sold her Wright aircraft in 1917 and bought a "loop model" Curtiss pusher, which had the Curtiss wheel controls. She had it fitted with Wright lever controls because she was more familiar with them. On January 17, 1917, she gave her first public exhibition of looping and aerobatic flying at Daytona Beach.

On November 19-20, 1916, Ms. Law made the greatest flight of her career, setting three new records: the American nonstop cross-country record, the world nonstop cross-country record for women, and the second best world nonstop cross-country record. She left Chicago at 8:25 a.m. and flew nonstop to Hornell, New York, where she landed at 2:10 p.m. This distance of 590 miles broke the American nonstop cross-country record of 452 miles set by Victor Carlstrom on November 2.

Ms. Law left Hornell an hour later, after the spark plugs in her plane had been changed by a young Army lieutenant named "Hap" Arnold, and flew on to Binghamton, where she spent the night. The next morning she flew on to New York City, where