FILE - Elinor Smith stands beside her plane before marking an assault on the women's altitude record at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, in this March 27, 1931 file photo. The family of Elinor Smith says she died Friday March 19, 2010 in a nursing home in Palo Alto. She was 98. Family members say Smith was considered one of the youngest and most daring pilots in the 1920s when she set a number of flying records. Smith became an instant celebrity at the age of 17 when she flew under all four of New York's East River suspension bridges. (AP Photo, File)