Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys

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Part III Wartime and Military Flying 97 Jacqueline Cochran Women Pilots Can Make a Difference 103 Violet Cowden Determined WASP 111 Valentina Grizodubova The Soviet Amelia Earhart 118 Hanna Reitsch The World’s First Female Test Pilot 125 Part IV All Part of the Job 133 Pancho Barnes Stunt Flyer Extraordinaire 136 Lynn Rippelmeyer and Beverly Burns Airline Pilot Captains 142 Wally Funk Air Safety Investigator 148 Patty Wagstaff Aerobatic Firefighter 155 Ingrid Pedersen Polar Bush Pilot 161 Part V Making a Difference 167 Ruth Nichols Relief Wings in Times of Disaster 172 Fay Gillis Wells Promoting World Friendship through Flying 179 Jennifer Murray Helicopter Flying for Charity 186 Ida Van Smith Teaching Children to Fly 192 Jerrie Cobb Missionary Pilot 197 Acknowledgments 203 Notes 205 Glossary 211 Bibliography 217 Index 225