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Who was the woman who started the mile high club?
Letitia Sage: the first woman Englishwoman to fly in a hot air balloon. Tina speaks to Sharon Wright, journalist and author of Balloonmania Belles: Daredevil Divas Who First Took to the Sky. She tells us about Mrs Sage's 1785 flight, why she might be the founder of 'the mile high club', and the other women at the forefront of aeronautics at the time.
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