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passengers as well as for women pilots. Mrs. Hart O. Berg, wife of the Wright brothers' European representative, was the first American woman to fly as a passenger in an airplane. She made a two minute three second flight with Wilbur Wright as Auvers, France in 1908. Mrs. Berg is also credited with having inspired the famous lady's fashion of the day, the "hobble skirt". Apparently a French couturière was quite taken with the manner in which Mrs. Berg walked away from the aircraft with her long skirt still tied around her ankles. She had done this to keep it from blowing in the wind during her flight.
  The first woman to fly as an airplane passenger in America was Mrs. Ralph Van Deman of Washington, D.C., a good friend of the Wright brothers' sister Katherine. She developed an