Women Aviators (28 page)

Wels, Susan.
Amelia Earhart: The Thrill of It.
Philadelphia: Running Press, 2009.

Whyte, Edna Gardner and Ann L. Cooper.
Rising Above It: An Autobiography.
New York: Orion Books, 1991.

Books for Children

Brown, Tami Lewis, and François Roca.
Soar, Elinor!
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

McLoone, Margo.
Women Explorers of the Air: Harriet Quimby, Bessie Coleman, Amelia Earhart, Beryl Markham, Jacqueline Cochran.
Minneapolis: Capstone Press, 1999.

Rimmerman, Sara.
Hidden Heroine—Fay Gillis Wells.
Reston, VA: Zeus Enterprises, 1999.

Newspapers and Magazines

Aviation for Women
(magazine)

Burstein, Jennifer. “She Reached for the Sky to Become America's First Chinese-American Female Pilot.”
Audrey Magazine,
December 2005.

Church, Ellen. “Flying Brings Life of Enrichment.”
Robesonian,
January 23, 1995.

Crow, Kelly. “Breaking Barriers.”
Oklahoma Today
48, no. 5 (July-August 1998).

“Female Aviation Pioneer to Share Her Fervor for Flight at Stephens College.”
Missourian,
March 20, 2012.

Flying for Freedom: The Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots
(Teacher Resource Guide). NMUSAF Education Division.

Grosscup, Luann. “Fly Girls: WASPS Carried the Non-Combat Load When the Boys Were ‘Over There.'”
Chicago Tribune,
May 23, 1999.

Jameson, Tonya. “Pilots Meet to Mark Opening of First Exhibition of Women Pilots.”
Boca Raton News,
June 13, 1997.

Lambertson, Giles. “The Other Harlem.”
Air and Space Magazine,
March 2010.

Lee, Renée C. “Flying Club Inspires Youth to Soar.”
Houston Chronicle,
February 7, 2012.

Manning, Elizabeth. “Duo Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Woman's Polar Flight.”
Anchorage Daily News,
August 4, 2003.

Mortimer, Gavin. “Beryl Markham: Britain's Amelia Earhart.”
Telegraph,
November 27, 2009.

Moses, Phyllis R. “The Amazing Aviatrix Elinor Smith.”
Woman Pilot,
March 30, 2008.

Oakes, Claudia M. “United States Women in Aviation 1930–1939.”
Smithsonian Studies in Air and Space,
no. 6 (1985).

Robinson, Danielle. “Flying Gran's Record High.”
Manchester Evening News,
June 8, 2007.

Tillman, Judith. “Flying: Lifelong Interest for Aviatrix-Grandmother.”
Robesonian,
January 2, 1979.

“Wally Funk Suited for Space.”
State Magazine
5, no. 1 (Fall 2009).

Woo, Elaine. “Katherine Cheung, 98; Immigrant Was Nation's First Licensed Asian American Woman Pilot.”
Los Angeles Times,
September 7, 2003.

Videos and DVDs

Bessie Coleman.
Texan Cultures. YouTube.

Bessie Coleman: The Fly Girls.
Epworth Foundation. YouTube.

Black Wings: The First Female African American Pilot.
Smithsonian Channel. YouTube.

Breaking Through the Clouds: The First Women's National Air Derby
(Film). Archetypal Images. Heather Taylor, Director. 2010.

Captain Beverly Burns Receives Amelia Earhart Award.
Rob and Beverly Burns. YouTube.

Champion Aerobatic Pilot Patty Wagstaff.
Moving Art. YouTube.

“Elinor Smith Breaks Woman's Altitude Record at Roosevelt Field in New York.” Critical Past.
www.criticalpast.com/video/65675041967_Elinor-Smith_aircraft-takes-off_altitude-record_airplane_Roosevelt-Field
.

Fly Girls.
American Experience, PBS. Laurel Ladevich, Director. WGBH Educational Foundation, 1999.

Jennifer Murray: Survival Against the Odds.
TedX. YouTube.

Notes of Hope: Lynn Ripplemeyer.
Medical Bridges. YouTube.

Wings of Silver: The Vi Cowden Story
(documentary). Mark C. Bonn, Christine Seiber Bonn, Directors, 2010.

“Wright Brothers Demonstrate Flight with a Passenger in Le Mans, France.” Critical Past.
www.criticalpast.com/video/65675026656_Wright-brothers_drawn-by-horses_pull-weight-of-launching-derrick_sits-with-a-passenger
.

Websites

Air Ambulance Service, “The History of the Air Ambulance”:
www.airambulanceservice.com/history.html

AOPA, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association:
www.aopa.org

Air Race Classic:
www.airraceclassic.org/historyt.asp

Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum:
www.ameliaearhartmuseum.org

Amelia Earhart Official Website:
http://ameliaearhart.com

Ames Historical Society, “Neta Snook”:
www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/snook.htm

Angel Flight:
www.angelflight.com

Aviation Museum of Kentucky, “Willa Brown Chappell”:
www.ket.org/trips/aviation/chappell.htm

AvStop Online Magazine, “Russian Women Pilots”:
http://avstop.com/history/aroundtheworld/russia/nexen.htm

Bessie Coleman:
www.bessiecoleman.com

Bobbi Trout—Aviatrix: The Official Web Site of the American Legend:
www.bobbitrout.com

A Bridge of Wings:
http://bridgeofwings.com/

A Brief Flight, “Hazel Ying Lee”:
www.hazelyinglee.com/main.html

British Air Transport Auxiliary:
www.airtransportaux.com/index.html

California State Military Museum, “Florence L. ‘Pancho' Barnes”:
www.militarymuseum.org/Barnes.html

Century of Flight:
www.century-of-flight.net

China History Forum, “History of Aviation in a China That Never Was”:
www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.php?/topic/29274-history-of-aviation-in-a-china-that-never-was

City Noise, “The Bridges of New York City”:
http://citynoise.org/article/773

Civil Air Patrol:
www.gocivilairpatrol.com

CNN, “Equal Opportunities at 38,000 Feet”:
www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/10/28/malaysia.female.pilots/index.html

_____, “Why Aren't More Women Airline Pilots?”:
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-18/travel/female.airline.pilots_1_women-airline-pilots-american-airlines-captain-helen-richey?_s=PM:TRAVEL

Cradle of Aviation Museum, “People”:
www.cradleofaviation.org/history/people

Davis-Monthan Aviation Field Register, “Florence Low ‘Pancho' Barnes”:
http://dmairfield.org/people/barnes_fl/

_____, “Lady Mary Heath”:
www.dmairfield.com/people/heath_lm

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, “Jacqueline Cochran and the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs):
http://eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/jacqueline_cochran.html

EAA, “EAA's Countdown to Kitty Hawk”:
www.countdowntokittyhawk.com

EAA Young Eagles:
www.youngeagles.org

Eagle Flight Squadron, Inc.:
http://eagleflightsquadron.org

Early Aviators, “Baroness de Laroche”:
http://earlyaviators.com/edelaroc.htm

Edwards Air Force Base, “Team Edwards Celebrates Pancho Barnes Day”:
www.edwards.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123177234

Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, “Louise McPhetridge Thaden (1905–1979)”:
http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=30

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):
http://earlyaviators.com/edelaroc.htm

FAI, “The First Women's Records”:
www.fai.org/records/57-fai/35098-the-first-womens-records

First Flight Foundation, “Honoring 100 Aviation Heroes”:
www.firstflightfoundation.org/first-flight-foundation-about-us/first-flight-foundation-history/honoring-100-aviation-heroes.shtml

Gale Group, “Beryl Markham”:
www.karenblixen.com/gale.html

Goldstripes Aviation, “Centennial of Women Pilots”:
http://centennialofwomenpilots.com

Hill Air Force Base, “Willa Brown”:
www.hill.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=5858

International Forest of Friendship:
http://ifof.org

International Society of Women Airline Pilots:
www.iswap.org

International Women's Air and Space Museum:
http://iwasm.org/wp-blog

Iowa Pathways, “Neta Snook: Determined to Fly”:
www.iptv.org/iowapathways/mypath.cfm?ounid=ob_000185

Jerrie Cobb Foundation:
www.jerrie-cobb.org

Library of Congress, American Folklife Center Veterans History Project, “Interview with Violet Cowden”:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.18240/transcript?ID=sr0001

Lindbergh Foundation, “Lindbergh Foundation Partners with the Patty Wagstaff Kenya Wildlife Service”:
www.lindberghfoundation.org/docs/index.php/patty-wagstaff

Motion Picture Pilots Association, “Patty Wagstaff”:
www.moviepilots.com/members/wagstaff.html

National Aviation Hall of Fame, “Enshrinees”:
www.nationalaviation.org/enshrinees

National Museum of the US Air Force (Fact Sheets):
www.nationalmuseum.af.mil

National WASP World War II Museum, “Jackie Cochran Biography”:
http://waspmuseum.org/jackie-cochran-biography/NASA

_____, “Elinor Smith: Born to Fly”:
www.nasa.gov/topics/people/features/elinor-smith.html

______, “Gliders”:
www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/glider.html

The Ninety-Nines Inc. International Organization of Women Pilots:
www.ninety-nines.org

Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, “Geraldyn M. Cobb”:
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CO010.html

Pancho Barnes Official Website:
www.panchobarnes.com

Patty Wagstaff Airshows:
www.pattywagstaff.com

Polar First:
www.polarfirst.com

Royal Air Force Air Cadets:
www.raf.mod.uk/aircadets

San Diego Air and Space Museum:
www.sandiegoairandspace.org

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, “America by Air”:
http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/gal102/americabyair/index.cfm

_____, “Black Wings”:
http://airandspace.si.edu/blackwings

______, “Women in Aviation”:
http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/women/roche.cfm

Society of Air Racing Historians, “Results of the Bendix Air Race”:
www.airrace.com/ResultsBendix.htm

South Central Section Ninety-Nines, “Wally Funk Is Still Determined to Get Her Shot at Space”:
www.scs99s.org/Profiles/WallyFunk.pdf

Texas Woman's University Libraries and Digital Collections:
www.twu.edu/library/wasp.asp

TIGHAR (The International Group for Historical Aircraft Recovery):
http://tighar.org

University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project, “Violet Cowden Papers”:
library.uncg.edu/dp/wv/collection.aspx?col=450

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, “Mercury 13”:
www.uwosh.edu/mercury13

US Air Force (Fact Sheets; News):
www.af.mil

Whirly-Girls:
www.whirlygirls.org

Wings Across America:
http://wingsacrossamerica.us/

“Women in Aviation and Space History”:
http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/women/

Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company:
www.wright-brothers.org

Page numbers in italics refer to photographs.

Abbott, Robert,
25
,
26
,
29

aerial firefighters,
158–160

Aero Enterprises,
77

Aero Reclaiming Company,
66

Aero Valley Airport,
77

aerobatics,
74
,
155
,
156–157

Aéro-Club,
8

aerospace education,
168

African Americans

first female captain,
94
,
144

first licensed pilots,
26
,
92

flight schools for,
31
,
93
,
195

Harlem Renaissance,
27

military status,
93
,
94

air ambulances,
172–173
,
174

Air Cadets Organisation,
195

Air Care Alliance,
169

Air Charity Network,
169

Air College Inc.,
76

Air Force,
101
,
102

Air Marking Program,
57
,
59
,
170

Air National Guard,
102

Air Race Classic,
45

air races,
42
,
44–45
.
See also specific names

AirAsia,
83

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA),
169

Airline Transport Pilot certificate (ATP),
143–144

All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race,
45

Amazon rainforest,
199–200

Amelia Earhart Fund for Aeronautical Research,
52

Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship fund,
184

Angel Flight,
169

Arnold, Hap,
103

Asian Americans,
79

Associated Motion Picture Pilots (AMPP),
137

astronauts,
152

ATA (British Air Transport Auxiliary),
98

Atlantic flights,
49
,
50
,
51
,
87–88
,
176–177

autogiros,
50

Avenger Field,
104–105