Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick was born in 1893. She was the first woman to leap from an airplane and the first parachutist—man or woman—to self-deploy a canopy. Broadwick joined the aerial barnstorming circuit at age 15 touring the country as a stunt jumper. After she retired from active jumping, she went on to promote skydiving everywhere she went. She made more than 1,100 jumps before retiring in 1923. Broadwick died in 1979.