“Hoots and derision, which did not worry me at all,” Lilian Bland) wrote, describing her visit to an airshow in Blackpool, England) in 1909. She’d been telling everyone there that she intended to build and fly her own airplane. They were unimpressed. Lilian was undeterred. She built a DIY plane of bamboo, wood, and fabric, with a bicycle handlebar for steering and an engine she carried from England back to her home in Ireland. But would the Mayfly, )as she called it, fly?
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