Cook, Edith Maud (d. 1910)
Cook, Edith Maud (d. 1910)
British aviator and parachutist. Name variations: Spencer Kavanagh; Violet Spenser. Killed in July 1910.
Edith Cook learned to fly on a Blériot monoplane in early 1910 at the Grahame-White School at Pau, France, under the name Spencer Kavanagh. She was already well-known as a parachute jumper under another pseudonym Violet Spenser. In July 1910, Cook was killed while making a descent from a balloon over Coventry.
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