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we really should spend more time on other woman flight pioneers Starting with Jackie Cochran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Cochran https://en.wikip
by johnohara 3y ago
we really should spend more time on other woman flight pioneers
Starting with Jackie Cochran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Cochran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Cochran
* Encouraged by then-Major Chuck Yeager, with whom Cochran shared a lifelong friendship, on May 18, 1953, at Rogers Dry Lake, California, Cochran flew the Sabre 3 at an average speed of 652.337 mph. During the course of this run the Sabre went supersonic, and Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier.*
Per her wikipedia page: "During her supersonic run, Yeager flew right on her wing."
Analogs of each other. Yeager said as much in his autobiography.
- rpmisms 3y agoShe was an amazingly competent firecracker, two traits that rarely go together and produce greatness when they do.
- mgarfias 3y agoJackie is the first person I thought of too.
- ThinkingGuy 3y agoAlso notable: Bessie Coleman, who received her pilot's license a year before Earhart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman
- satiated_grue 3y agoAnd Coleman had to leave the US and go to France to get her license, because she was an African-American woman and no US school would teach her. She took French classes to send applications to the flight schools.