WOMEN WITH WINGS WOMEN PILOTS OF WORLD WAR BY SHANNON BAKER MOORE CONTENT CONSULTANT JACQUELINE LUEDTKE PHD ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF AERONAUTICS EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY Essential Library An Imprint of Abdo Publishing I abdopublishing com
CHAPTER ONE TRAIN TWO WOMEN TO FLY IT Dora Dougherty climbed into the cockpit of the B 29 bomber with copilot Dorothea Didi Johnson right beside her The two women had never flown a four engine bomber before but they were determined to learn This airplane the Boeing B 29 Superfortress was the most powerful bomber of World War II 1939 1945 It had 12 machine guns one cannon and a maximum bomb load of 20 000 pounds 9 071 kg It also had a dangerous reputation The B 29's first test flight happened on September 21 1942 It had gone smoothly Dora Dougherty flew nearly every type of army aircraft
