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Hart, M. R.
Marion R. Hart (1891–1990) learned to fly at age fifty-four and made seven solo flights across the Atlantic. In 1914, she became the first woman to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), majoring in chemical engineering. Although she never became a chemical engineer, she worked in a research laboratory, and eventually went to Columbia for an MA in geology.
In 1936, Hart began a three-year voyage around the world in her seventy two-foot ketch Vanora. After firing the fourth captain, she became the skipper of her ship and had to learn how to navigate. During World War II, Hart served as a radio operator on a B-17. She then decided she wanted to learn to fly and made headlines in Sports Illustrated. Hart is the author of How to Navigate Today, which is in its sixth edition.
