Flying High: Pioneer Women in American Aviation (Images of Aviation)

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At first of the twentieth century, women were
demanding more freedom. What could bring more freedom
than an opportunity to fly? Women went up in those early wire-andfabric contraptions to achieve independence, to earn cash, or to make their names as pilots. They sought to end up that women pilots could do just in addition to men―and a few did far better. Flying High: Pioneer Women in American Aviation tells the story of Blanche Stuart Scott, who made $5,000 a week and
broke forty-one bones; of Harriet Quimby, who flew the English Channel handily after which fell to her death in five feet of water near Boston Harbor; of Ruth Law and Katherine Stinson, who set American distance flying records―all before any of them were allowed to vote. Flying High: Pioneer Women in American Aviation also tells the tales of women in the back of the scenes―the financiers, engineers, and factory workers―from the earliest days of flying to victory in World War II. These stories of the first female flyers are told in rare, vintage photographs, many prior to now unpublished, from the archives of the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum.

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