In their own words : forgotten women pilots of early aviation /

Erisman, Fred,

In their own words : forgotten women pilots of early aviation / Fred Erisman. - 1 online resource. - Purdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- IN THEIR OWN Words -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Aviation Age Takes Shape -- I. Harriet Quimby: Birdwomen Gain a Voice, 1910-1912 -- II. "Machinery Knows No Sex": Ruth Law, the Stinson Sisters, and the Legacy of World War I -- III. The Earhart Phenomenon and "The Accident of Sex" -- IV. Louise Thaden: Rethinking Flying and Flight -- V. Ruth Nichols, the Air-Minded Society, and the Aerial Frontier -- VI. Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the Twilight of the Aviation Age -- Epilogue: Requiem for the Aviation Age -- Notes



9781557539793 9781557539809


Women air pilots--Biography.
Women in aeronautics.
Aeronautics--History.


Electronic Books.

TL539 / .I584 2021