Jacqueline Cochran

Biography of a Pioneer Aviator

Rhonda Smith-Daugherty (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

221 Seiten

2012
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-6275-9 (ISBN)

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Although Amelia Earhart remains the best-known female pilot of the 1930s, Jacqueline Cochran stood as the more important aviation pioneer and America's top woman pilot. Among her many accomplishments, Cochran was the first female aviator to win the Bendix Air Race, to fly a bomber, to break the speed of sound, and to participate in astronaut training. This revealing biography explores Cochran's childhood in an impoverished Florida mill town, her early career as a pilot, and her role in creating and leading the WASPs during World War II. It also chronicles her postwar exploits, including her participation in the nascent space program, her unsuccessful 1956 bid for Congress, and her surprising reluctance to crusade for the advancement of women. This detailed profile, removing Cochran from Earhart's shadow, firmly establishes the aviatrix as a pivotal figure in the history of women in aviation and in war.

Rhonda Smith-Daugherty is an associate professor of history and history department chairperson at Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Making of Jacqueline Cochran

2. The Lady Is a Pilot

3. America’s Number One Woman Flier

4. An Unusual Life

5. Women in War

6. Jacqueline Cochran and the WASPs

7. The WASP Experience

8. The End of the WASPs

9. High Flying

10. Postscript

Appendix One: Biographical Sketches

General Henry Harley Arnold, 1886–1950

Vincent Hugo Bendix, 1882–1945

Amelia Earhart, 1897–1937

Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, 1905–1995

Nancy Harkness Love, 1914–1976

General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, 1880–1959

Floyd Odlum, 1892–1976

Alexander Nikolaivich Prokofieff de Seversky, 1894–1974

Lieutenant General Barton Kyle Yount, 1884–1949

Appendix Two: Major Aircraft Flown by Jacqueline Cochran

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo	7 photographs
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
ISBN-10	0-7864-6275-2 / 0786462752
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-6275-9 / 9780786462759
Zustand	Neuware