Have you ever heard of Jerrie Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world? She was from Newark, Ohio and she became the first woman pilot to solo over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. When Mock winged her way from Honolulu to Columbus in 1966, she set the record for the longest nonstop flight by a woman.
Two years earlier in 1964 in Columbus, she piloted a single-engine Cessna 180 named the "Spirit of Columbus" and logged 22,860 miles in 29 days. A replica of the plane is at The Works in Newark.
