Before Amelia
Subtitle: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Published: August 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781574884821
Subjects: Aircraft: general interest; Biography: general; History of specific subjects; Women's studies; Women's Studies - History; History; Transportation; Aviation - History; Transportation / Aviation / History; Biography; Aeronautics; Women air pilots
First sentence: ON OCTOBER 22, 1909, at Chalons, France, a fragile aeroplane maneuvered across the field, turned, and, with motor at full gas, rushed and lifted into the air for a distance of some three hundred meters before settling down again.