Fly girls how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
"High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot"--
| Main Author: | O'Brien, Keith, 1973- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Miracle of Wichita
- Devotedly, Ruth
- Real and natural, every inch
- Fortune of the air
- Bravest of the fair, fairest of the brave
- Flying salesgirls
- Right sort of girl
- City of destiny
- If this is to be a derby
- There is only one Cleveland
- Good eggs
- Mr. Putnam and me
- Law of fate
- Give a girl credit
- Grudge flight
- Spetakkel
- All things being equal
- That's what I think of wives flying
- They'll be in our hair
- Playing hunches
- A woman couldn't win
- Top of the hill.