Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys
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An A Cappella Book Women Aviators 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights Daring Missions and Record-Setting Journeys Karen Bush Gibson
CONTENTS Introduction 1 Part I Pioneers of Aviation 5 Baroness de Laroche Bird Woman 8 Harriet Quimby First Woman to Fly Across the English Channel 16 Bessie Coleman Queen Bess 25 Neta Snook The Woman Who Taught Amelia to Fly 32 Part II The Golden Age of Flight 41 Amelia Earhart The Most Famous Female Aviator in the World 46 Louise Thaden Women’s Air Derby Winner 55 Bobbi Trout From Service Station to Airfield 61 Elinor Smith The Flying Flapper of Freeport 67 Edna Gardner Whyte Nothing Could Stop Her from Flying 72 Katherine Cheung The First Licensed Asian American Woman Pilot 79 Beryl Markham African Bush Pilot Crosses Atlantic 84 Willa Brown Integrating the US Armed Forces 90
