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Jacqueline Cochran: Biography of a Pioneer Aviator by Rhonda Smith-daugherty PDF

By Rhonda Smith-daugherty

ISBN-10: 0786462752

ISBN-13: 9780786462759

even though Amelia Earhart is still the best-known woman pilot of the Thirties, Jacqueline Cochran stood because the extra vital aviation pioneer and America’s best girl pilot. between her many accomplishments, Cochran was once the 1st girl aviator to win the Bendix Air Race, to fly a bomber, to wreck the rate of sound, and to take part in astronaut education. This revealing biography explores Cochran’s formative years in an impoverished Florida mill city, her early occupation as a pilot, and her position in developing and major the WASPs in the course of international conflict II. It additionally chronicles her postwar exploits, together with her participation within the NASA area application, her unsuccessful 1956 bid for Congress, and her extraordinary reluctance to campaign for the development of ladies. This exact profile, removal Cochran from Earhart’s shadow, firmly establishes the aviatrix as a pivotal determine within the historical past of girls in aviation and in war.

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