Elm Farm Ollie

Written on February 22, 2007. Written by Glenn Vance.§ 0

On Feb­ru­ary 18, 1930, a Guernsey cow from Bis­marck, Mis­souri named Elm Farm Ollie [1. The info for this post came from the super-duper Wikipedia.] became the first cow in his­tory to fly in an air­plane as part of the Inter­na­tional Air Expo­si­tion in St. Louis, Mis­souri. The trip cov­ered 72 miles, with Ollie tak­ing off from Bis­marck, Mis­souri, and land­ing in St. Louis, Mis­souri. Dur­ing the flight she was milked, also mak­ing her the first cow ever milked in the air.

She pro­duced 24 quarts of milk dur­ing the flight, which was sealed into paper car­tons and para­chuted to spec­ta­tors below. Charles Lind­bergh report­edly received a glass of Ollie’s milk.

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