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Women With Wings: Female Flyers in Fact and Fiction
Women With Wings Female Flyers in Fact and Fiction Author:Mary Cadogan Women with Wingsnow in paperbackis a perceptive and highly entertaining celebration of the achievements of female flyers from eighteenth-century balloonists to todays astronauts. For decades female aviators had to defy social prejudices despite having achieved remarkable feats of skill and endurance. From 1910, women pilots in... more » America performed death-defying stunts, and in England during the 1920s, a clutch of aristocratic flyers were flipping from continent to continent in their private planes. By the 1930s women had produced an abundance of record-makersAmy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Jean Batten and Beryl Markham among them. The Second World War recruited British and American women to ferry fighters and bombers from factories and airfields, and produced some outstanding pilots from Germany and Russia. Post-war developments included long-distance record flights and the growth of opportunity in commercial and military flight and in space exploration. As well as charting womens progress in aviation, Women with Wings considers fictional images of female flyers in comic-strips, magazines, booksfrom girls adventure tales to romances. This book is both amusing and enlightening in its research on the determination and struggles of women to fly.« less