Aviatrix by Elinor Smith
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Overview: Reading Aviatrix is a journey back in time that all who were there will find irresistible. For the later arrivals, it tells of the real beginning....Finally, we have a factual and detailed record of aviation's most romantic period, by the top woman pilot of the era." -H. A. Ottewill, Captain, U.S. Naval Reserve (Ret.) and Captain, TWA (Ret.).
In 1917, six-year-old Elinor Smith went up for her first airplane ride. From then on, she spent every spare moment hanging around the planes and fliers at Long Island's Roosevelt Field - the site of many aviation firsts of that era - for her dream to make flying a career had begun.
That was a revolutionary idea in those days. Flying was still in its infancy, and only a few women had managed to become licensed pilots, most of them supported by rich husbands. Even the top male pilots had to struggle to make a living in this newfangled industry. Determined to make her dream come true, Elinor soloed at the age of fifteen; a year later she became the youngest licensed pilot in the United States when Orville Wright signed her F.A.I. flying license.
After attracting national attention by flying under the four New York City bridges, she went on to pilot 158 different models of aircraft, to set altitude, endurance and refueling records, and to be named "Best Woman Pilot" in 1930, the same year her idol and friend Lt. Jimmy Doolittle was named "Best Aviator." All of this was "seat of the pants" flying, since pilots were lucky to have a compass and an altimeter in the cockpit, and their lives depended on their intimate knowledge of each plane that they flew.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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Requirements: .ePUB reader, 356 KB
Overview: Reading Aviatrix is a journey back in time that all who were there will find irresistible. For the later arrivals, it tells of the real beginning....Finally, we have a factual and detailed record of aviation's most romantic period, by the top woman pilot of the era." -H. A. Ottewill, Captain, U.S. Naval Reserve (Ret.) and Captain, TWA (Ret.).
In 1917, six-year-old Elinor Smith went up for her first airplane ride. From then on, she spent every spare moment hanging around the planes and fliers at Long Island's Roosevelt Field - the site of many aviation firsts of that era - for her dream to make flying a career had begun.
That was a revolutionary idea in those days. Flying was still in its infancy, and only a few women had managed to become licensed pilots, most of them supported by rich husbands. Even the top male pilots had to struggle to make a living in this newfangled industry. Determined to make her dream come true, Elinor soloed at the age of fifteen; a year later she became the youngest licensed pilot in the United States when Orville Wright signed her F.A.I. flying license.
After attracting national attention by flying under the four New York City bridges, she went on to pilot 158 different models of aircraft, to set altitude, endurance and refueling records, and to be named "Best Woman Pilot" in 1930, the same year her idol and friend Lt. Jimmy Doolittle was named "Best Aviator." All of this was "seat of the pants" flying, since pilots were lucky to have a compass and an altimeter in the cockpit, and their lives depended on their intimate knowledge of each plane that they flew.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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