Fly girls
Subtitle: how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
By: Keith O'Brien
Publisher: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781328876645
Subjects: Air shows; Women air pilots; Biography; History
Description: "High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot"--
Notes: "An Eamon Dolan Book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-327) and index.
Table of contents: title: Miracle of Wichita; title: Devotedly, Ruth; title: Real and natural, every inch; title: Fortune of the air; title: Bravest of the fair, fairest of the brave; title: Flying salesgirls; title: Right sort of girl; title: City of destiny; title: If this is to be a derby; title: There is only one Cleveland; title: Good eggs; title: Mr. Putnam and me; title: Law of fate; title: Give a girl credit; title: Grudge flight; title: Spetakkel; title: All things being equal; title: That's what I think of wives flying; title: They'll be in our hair; title: Playing hunches; title: A woman couldn't win; title: Top of the hill.