caption death_date death_place birth_place license_date image_size nationality license_place birth_date alt spouse known_for image article_title famous_flights name
bolland ca. 1921 18 march 1975 paris arcueil , france 1920 250px french le crotoy 25 november 1895 a smiling woman . all but her face is under a sepia-tinged leathery covering black-and-white photograph showing the head of a ernest vinchon first flight over andes by a woman adrienne bolland.jpg adrienne bolland
 across andes , 1 april 1921 adrienne bolland
adrienne bolland

adrienne bolland , born boland , -lrb- 25 november 1895 -- 18 march 1975 -rrb- was a french test pilot and the first woman to fly over the andes between chile and argentina .
she was later described as `` france 's most accomplished female aviator '' , setting a woman 's record for loops done in an hour .
the french government eventually recognized her with the legion of honor and other awards .
since her death , she has been commemorated with a postage stamp .
born into a large family outside paris , she became a pilot in her twenties to pay off gambling debts .
an early crossing of the english channel led rené caudron , her employer , to send her to south america to demonstrate his planes , where she made her andes crossing , assisted , she later said , by a tip relayed to her from a medium .
later in her life she became involved in leftist political causes , and eventually became part of the french resistance .
