page_title: Wally Scott
section_title: Marriage and children
hierarchical_section_title: Wally Scott / Marriage and children
caption_attribution_description: English: Sailplane Pioneer Wally Scott and Wife Boots
context_page_description: Wallace Aiken Scott was an American aviator and author, a holder of several international sailplane records, and a multi-time recipient of the Lewin B. Barringer trophy awarded for the longest, free-distance, sailplane flight of each year made in the United States. Over 36 years Wallace Wally Scott increased the distance flown in a sailplane.
  Scott became a pioneer of free-distance, straight-out, soaring flight and won 4 Fédération Aéronautique Internationale-certified, world soaring records, 20 Lewin B. Barringer Trophies, and numerous other awards and honors, including induction into the Soaring Hall of Fame in 1965.
  Scott flew various sailplanes more than 300,000 miles while twice winning the transcontinental Smirnoff Sailplane Derby race, the longest sailplane race in the world. On July 26, 1970, he and Ben Greene co-set the world distance record of 716.95 miles, both flying ASW-12 sailplanes.
context_section_description: After returning to the United States, Scott met Beverly "Boots" Mae Jackson in January 1946 and they were married on May 12, 1946.  Between December 1947 and April 1951 they had four children, a son and daughter and twin girls.
caption: Wally Scott and wife Boots
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