Clara Adams

She helped popularize air travel[3] and was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger aboard the Graf Zeppelin.

The flight was piloted by Walter E. Johnson, who would become a captain in the U.S. Army, and reached an altitude of 700 feet, "a daring height in those pioneer days.

[6] She was the first passenger on round-trip commercial flights across the Pacific, between New York and Bermuda, and between San Francisco and New Zealand.

She is remembered primarily as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a ticketed passenger aboard the Graf Zeppelin on its return flight from New York in October 1928.

The journalist Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay flew across the Atlantic, on the outbound flight of the same journey.