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Biography of Amelia Earhart, an aviatrix who received the Distinguished Flying Cross and began championing the efforts of women throughout the world to explore careers -- especially in aviation. Tragically, just days before her fortieth birthday, Earhart and her plane vanished en route to tiny Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean as she neared the end of a round-the-world journey.
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"Amelia Earhart was the first woman to solo across the Atlantic; she broke transcontinental speed records, was the first to solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City and from Honolulu to the Mainland, and pioneered the airline routes. She lost her last gamble trying to fly around the world at the Equator in a two-engine plane without the navigational aids that became available only a few years later. Winged Legend, however, is more than the story of America's...
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Bessie Coleman, or how a young woman from a poor family in Texas, oppressed by racial segregation, became the first African-American aviator thanks to the French flight school of the Caudron brothers in Baie de Somme. An incredible adventure of the "Roaring Twenties", against a backdrop of anti-racist and feminist battles.
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She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays the "What Happened to Amelia Earhart?" myth by disclosing who Earhart really was--a woman of three centuries, born in the 19th, pioneering in the 20th, and advocating ideals and dreams relevant to the 21st. 15 illustrations
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"When Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, she was at the height of her fame. Fascination with Earhart remains just as strong today, as her mysterious disappearance continues to inspire speculation. In this nuanced and often surprising biography, acclaimed aviation historian Kathleen C. Winters moves beyond the caricature of the spunky, precocious pilot to offer a more complex portrait. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts,...
12) Eileen Collins
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The young woman from Elmira, New York with dreams of flying became not only the first female instructor pilot, but also the first space shuttle commander. The STS-93 was fortunate to have her as their leader, and we are fortunate to have Eileen Collins as a Legend of Airpower.
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"From his days as a barnstorming pilot to his transatlantic flight to his role in mapping international mail routes, Lindbergh never stopped challenging himself. This is an unprecedented view of an extraordinary man. New Introduction by Reeve Lindbergh Index photographs and maps."--Publisher.
17) Borrowed dreams: the roughest, toughest jobs on the planet-- and what I learned from working them
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Gross has turned his life into an adventures and now you can too. A modern day balladeer, Gross presents over a hundred times annually to business groups from around the world. The rest of the time? He is in search of the next BORROWED DREAM!
18) Lindbergh
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Chronicles the life of Charles Lindbergh and discusses his childhood, his influence and accomplishments in the aviation industry, his child's murder, and his work on creating an artificial heart.
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"Can modern science tell us what happened to Amelia Earhart? A team of renowned scientists - members of TIGHAR's (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery) Amelia Earhart Project - has spent fifteen years searching for Amelia using everything from archival research and archaeological survey to side-scan sonar and the analysis of radio wave propagation. In this spellbinding book, these scholars offer tantalizing evidence that the First...
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