The Unlucky Pilot

In a slightly alternate 1900 (think more Steampunk-ish) a young Italian woman has a dream- To be the first female aeroplane pilot. After a terrible crash in which her assistant is killed, she returns to Italy and recruits a brothel girl to be her wing-woman, and together they set out to complete a challenge presented by the Empress herself: To fly nonstop from Vienna to Constantinople.