![]() Her most well-known flights were made in 1934 and earned her a Harmon Trophy as the most outstanding female aviator of the year. In 1935, she became the first women to fly nonstop from the east coast to the west coast and then immediately broke Amelia Earhart's nonstop transcontinental west-to-east record with a flight from Los Angeles to New York in 13 hours, 34 minutes. transcontinental air records during the 1930s than any other woman, including a transcontinental record of 30 hours east to west and 25 hours west to east (round trip from New York to Los Angeles), both in 1930. ![]() ![]() She also did 714 barrel rolls breaking both women's and men's records. In 1930, she performed 344 consecutive loops, setting a women's record, and she shortly broke her own record with 930 loops. ![]() Daughter of a wealthy New York City family, Ingalls learned to fly in 1928. Laura Ingalls was a highly successful female pilot of the 1930s with several unusual records to her credit. ![]()
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