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she landed at Governor's Island and was greeted by officials of the U.S. Army and the Aero Club of America. The end of the flight was perhaps the most eventful part. Ms. Law had not refueled at Binghamton, and by the time she was over Manhattan, her engine began to cut out. To reach Governor's Island, she had to bank the airplane several times to get the fuel from the tank to the carburetors.

Ms. Law used her open Curtiss pusher for the flight with a small crude shield around her feet to protect them from the cold. She had designed a supplementary fuel system for the flight, increasing her aircraft's capacity from eight to fifty-three gallons with auxiliary tanks. She had also had to improvise an interesting device for map reading which would enable her to still handle the controls; she designed a special map case in which she inserted a scroll of appropriate strips from Geodetic Survey maps; she could keep her left hand on the vertical control while holding the right control with her knee long enough to turn the map case knobs.

Ms. Law was the guest of honor at two large dinners in New York. On December 2, Pres. and Mrs. Wilson, several Cabinet members, and many aviation dignitaries attended a