Women with Wings: Female Flyers in Fact and Fiction
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (931 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0897335120 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Photos. Author tour. Stories about Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, Beryl Markham, etc., are interspersed with entertaining anecdotes about lesser-known heroines, including 17-year-old Edwardian waitress and Britain's "Parachute Queen," Dolly Shepherd. In WW II , women served as test pilots in Nazi Germany, combat fighters in the U.S.S.R. . Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly From early balloonists to astronauts, this carefully illustrated and documented collection chronicles the exploits of women aviation pioneers and their many fictional counterparts. Nev
Women with Wings is a perceptive and highly entertaining celebration of the achievements of female flyers from eighteenth-century balloonists to today's astronauts.For decades female aviators had to defy social prejudices despite having achieved remarkable feats of skill and endurance. From 1910, women pilots in 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-makers––Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Jean Batten and Beryl Markham among them. 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 women's progress in aviation, Women with Wings considers fictional images of female flyers in comic-strips, magazines, books-from girls' adventure tales to romances. This book is both amusing and enlightening in its research on the determination and struggles of women to fly.. The Second World War recruited British and American women to ferry fighters and bombers fr
Reza Ganjavi said Great Book. Mary is a diligent scholar and a great story teller. Women With Wings is a very enjoyable read. Aside shedding light on the history of female aviators, it portrays an important movement in the history of humankind, namely, certain women's insistence that they are not inferior to men despite the heavy tradition attesting otherwise.