Jacqueline Cochran

Author : Doris L. Rich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813035066

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Jackie Cochran by Doris L. Rich Pdf

"In Doris Rich's latest aviation biography, barefoot, illiterate Bessie Pittman reinvents herself as Jacqueline Cochran, the brash beautician who set more speed and altitude records than any pilot in history. . . . Rich illuminates the lesser-known facts of this under-appreciated pioneer and lights a belated candle for her too."--Air and Space "History has proven Earhart to be the favorite, but Cochran undoubtedly was the superior pilot: determined to be not just the best woman pilot but to be the best pilot, period, she broke countless aviation records for speed, altitude, and distance. . . . Rich gives Cochran her rightful place in aviation history."--Publishers Weekly "Often combative and abrasive, Cochran is a true American legend, and Rich's biography will ensure that Cochran's contributions will not be forgotten."--Booklist "At the time of her death on August 9, 1980, Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran--recipient of America's Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Legion of Merit--held more speed, altitude, and distance records (200-plus) than any other pilot, male or female, in the history of aviation. . . . Rich reminds us that this remarkable lady, despite her shortcomings, reached Mach 2--twice the speed of sound--piloting a Lockheed F-104 at the tender age of 58."--Library Journal

Author : Rhonda Smith-Daugherty
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780786489961

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Jacqueline Cochran by Rhonda Smith-Daugherty Pdf

Although Amelia Earhart remains the best-known female pilot of the 1930s, Jacqueline Cochran stood as the more important aviation pioneer and America’s top woman pilot. Among her many accomplishments, Cochran was the first female aviator to win the Bendix Air Race, to fly a bomber, to break the speed of sound, and to participate in astronaut training. This revealing biography explores Cochran’s childhood in an impoverished Florida mill town, her early career as a pilot, and her role in creating and leading the WASPs during World War II. It also chronicles her postwar exploits, including her participation in the NASA space program, her unsuccessful 1956 bid for Congress, and her surprising reluctance to crusade for the advancement of women. This detailed profile, removing Cochran from Earhart’s shadow, firmly establishes the aviatrix as a pivotal figure in the history of women in aviation and in war.

Author : Amy Shira Teitel
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538716038

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Fighting for Space by Amy Shira Teitel Pdf

Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any pilot of the twentieth century—man or woman. She had led the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots during the Second World War, was the first woman to break the sound barrier, ran her own luxury cosmetics company, and counted multiple presidents among her personal friends. She was more qualified than any woman in the world to make the leap from atmosphere to orbit. Yet it was Jerrie Cobb, twenty-five years Jackie's junior and a record-holding pilot in her own right, who finagled her way into taking the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts. The prospect of flying in space quickly became her obsession. While the American and international media spun the shocking story of a "woman astronaut" program, Jackie and Jerrie struggled to gain control of the narrative, each hoping to turn the rumored program into their own ideal reality—an issue that ultimately went all the way to Congress. This dual biography of audacious trailblazers Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb presents these fascinating and fearless women in all their glory and grit, using their stories as guides through the shifting social, political, and technical landscape of the time.

Author : Jacqueline Cochran,Floyd B. Odlum
Publisher : Ayer Company Pub
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0405121563

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The Stars at Noon by Jacqueline Cochran,Floyd B. Odlum Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Cochran,Maryann Bucknum Brinley
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000019943787

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Jackie Cochran by Jacqueline Cochran,Maryann Bucknum Brinley Pdf

Here is the story of an authentic, native-born American heroine--a real life "lil' Orphan Annie"--who battled her way through adventures that Annie never dreamed of. Photographs.

Author : Katherine Sharp Landdeck
Publisher : Crown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781524762827

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The Women with Silver Wings by Katherine Sharp Landdeck Pdf

“With the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, women pilots went aloft to serve their nation. . . . A soaring tale in which, at long last, these daring World War II pilots gain the credit they deserve.”—Liza Mundy, New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls “A powerful story of reinvention, community and ingenuity born out of global upheaval.”—Newsday When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Cornelia Fort was already in the air. At twenty-two, Fort had escaped Nashville’s debutante scene for a fresh start as a flight instructor in Hawaii. She and her student were in the middle of their lesson when the bombs began to fall, and they barely made it back to ground that morning. Still, when the U.S. Army Air Forces put out a call for women pilots to aid the war effort, Fort was one of the first to respond. She became one of just over 1,100 women from across the nation to make it through the Army’s rigorous selection process and earn her silver wings. The brainchild of trailblazing pilots Nancy Love and Jacqueline Cochran, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) gave women like Fort a chance to serve their country—and to prove that women aviators were just as skilled as men. While not authorized to serve in combat, the WASP helped train male pilots for service abroad, and ferried bombers and pursuits across the country. Thirty-eight WASP would not survive the war. But even taking into account these tragic losses, Love and Cochran’s social experiment seemed to be a resounding success—until, with the tides of war turning, Congress clipped the women’s wings. The program was disbanded, the women sent home. But the bonds they’d forged never failed, and over the next few decades they came together to fight for recognition as the military veterans they were—and for their place in history.

Author : Harriet Sigerman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0231116985

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The Columbia Documentary History of American Women Since 1941 by Harriet Sigerman Pdf

Liquid Metal brings together 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. Eight distinct sections cover such topics as the cyborg in science fiction; the science fiction city; time travel and the primal scene; science fiction fandom; and the 1950s invasion narratives. Important writings by Susan Sontag, Vivian Sobchack, Steve Neale, J.P. Telotte, Peter Biskind and Constance Penley are included.

Author : Bridges DelPonte
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683343714

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She Soars by Bridges DelPonte Pdf

Florida has a long and unique history of being a testing ground for female pilots who broke new ground in aviation. From the early 1900s when women performed daring stunts in the air to the World War II era when they served as WASP pilots to the modern times when they flew military jets, commercial planes, and Space Shuttles, Florida hasbeen a key place for female aviator history. These stories from Florida will highlight 14 of women who made history with their flying skills;and left their mark in the Sunshine State.The remarkable journeys of these trailblazing female aviators are told in a captivating and informative manner.

Author : David Marshall,Bruce Harris
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781552978498

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Wild about Flying! by David Marshall,Bruce Harris Pdf

"A celebration of aviation's first 100 years.

Author : Martha Ackmann
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375758935

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The Mercury 13 by Martha Ackmann Pdf

For readers of The Astronaut Wives Club, The Mercury 13 reveals the little-known true story of the remarkable women who trained for NASA space flight. In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys’ club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. The USSR sent its first woman into space in 1963; the United States did not follow suit for another twenty years. For the first time, Martha Ackmann tells the story of the dramatic events surrounding these thirteen remarkable women, all crackerjack pilots and patriots who sometimes sacrificed jobs and marriages for a chance to participate in America’s space race against the Soviet Union. In addition to talking extensively to these women, Ackmann interviewed Chuck Yeager, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, and others at NASA and in the White House with firsthand knowledge of the program, and includes here never-before-seen photographs of the Mercury 13 passing their Lovelace tests. Despite the crushing disappointment of watching their dreams being derailed, the Mercury 13 went on to extraordinary achievement in their lives: Jerrie Cobb, who began flying when she was so small she had to sit on pillows to see out of the cockpit, dedicated her life to flying solo missions to the Amazon rain forest; Wally Funk, who talked her way into the Lovelace trials, went on to become one of the first female FAA investigators; Janey Hart, mother of eight and, at age forty, the oldest astronaut candidate, had the political savvy to steer the women through congressional hearings and later helped found the National Organization for Women. A provocative tribute to these extraordinary women, The Mercury 13 is an unforgettable story of determination, resilience, and inextinguishable hope.

Author : Molly Merryman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479805761

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Clipped Wings by Molly Merryman Pdf

Revives the overlooked stories of pioneering women aviators, who are also featured in the forthcoming documentary film Coming Home: Fight for a Legacy During World War II, all branches of the military had women's auxiliaries. Only the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, however, was made up entirely of women who undertook dangerous missions more commonly associated with and desired by men. Within military hierarchies, the World War II pilot was perceived as the most dashing and desirable of servicemen. "Flyboys" were the daring elite of the United States military. More than the WACs (Army), WAVES (Navy), SPARS (Coast Guard), or Women Marines, the WASPs directly challenged these assumptions of male supremacy in wartime culture. WASPs flew the fastest fighter planes and heaviest bombers; they test-piloted experimental models and worked in the development of weapons systems. Yet the WASPs were the only women's auxiliary within the armed services of World War II that was not militarized. In Clipped Wings, Molly Merryman draws upon military documents—many of which weren’t declassified until the 1990s—congressional records, and interviews with the women who served as WASPs during World War II to trace the history of the over one thousand pilots who served their country as the first women to fly military planes. She examines the social pressures that culminated in their disbandment in 1944—even though a wartime need for their services still existed—and documents their struggles and eventual success, in 1977, to gain military status and receive veterans’ benefits. In the preface to this reissued edition, Merryman reflects on the changes in women’s aviation in the past twenty years, as NASA’s new Artemis program promises to land the first female astronaut on the moon and African American and lesbian women are among the newest pilot recruits. Updating the story of the WASPs, Merryman reveals that even in the past few years there have been more battles for them to fight and more national recognition for them to receive. At its heart, the story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots is not about war or planes; it is a story about persistence and extraordinary achievement. These accomplished women pilots did more than break the barriers of flight; they established a model for equality.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015079585173

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Committee Prints by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : OSU:32437122928001

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Tax-exempt Foundations and Charitable Trusts, Their Impact on Our Economy by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000065837436

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119642358

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Tax-exempt Foundations and Charitable Trusts by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business Pdf