Women
of the Wind: Early Women Aviators by
Wanda Langley, 2006, Morgan Reynolds Publishing, $26.95, hardbound,
160 pages. Cover: good. Category/Genre: Reference/History. Where we
got it: borrowed it. Where you can get it: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million.
Between
the historic first flights of Orville and Wilbur Wright and the
breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager, there were many pilots
willing to risk their lives flying the rickety, open-cockpit planes
of the time. Some of those pilots were women; this book reveals the
stories of nine of those women, some of whom set more than one
record, some of whom died in flight, and all of whom serve as an
inspiration, not only to women and young girls, but to the men and
young boys who are interested in aviation.
Naturally,
Amelia Earhart is in this book; but here you'll also find Harriet
Quimby, the first woman to receive her pilot's license in the U.S.;
Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to fly a plane; Ruth
Nichols, who used aviation to help people; and others.
Black-and-white
photographs accompany the text, and each aviator gets her own timeline.
If
you like this one, try: Almost Astronauts, by
Tanya Lee Stone.
Find Wanda Langley's books on Goodreads and PaperBack Swap; there's also a biography on Encyclopedia.com.
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