The Lady from the Air
Author | : Alice Muriel Williamson |
Publisher | : S.B. Gundy |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Airplanes |
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Author | : Alice Muriel Williamson |
Publisher | : S.B. Gundy |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Airplanes |
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Author | : Charles Norris Williamson |
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Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 1912 |
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Author | : Charles Norris Williamson |
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Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 1922 |
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Author | : Janann Sherman |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1617031259 |
Aviation pioneer Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie (1902–1975) was once one of the most famous women in America. In the 1930s, her words and photographs were splashed across the front pages of newspapers across the nation. The press labeled her “second only to Amelia Earhart among America's women pilots,” and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt named her among the “eleven women whose achievements make it safe to say that the world is progressing.” Omlie began her career in the early 1920s when aviation was unregulated and open to those daring enough to take it on, male or female. She earned the first commercial pilot's license issued to a woman and became a successful air racer. During the New Deal, she became the first woman to hold an executive position in federal aeronautics. In Walking on Air, author Janann Sherman presents a thorough and entertaining biography of Omlie. In 1920, the Des Moines, Iowa, native bought herself a Curtiss JN-4D airplane and began learning how to fly and perform stunts with her future husband, pilot Vernon Omlie. She danced the Charleston on the top wing, hung by her teeth below the plane, and performed parachute jumps in the Phoebe Fairgrave Flying Circus. Using interviews, contemporary newspaper articles, archived radio transcripts, and other archival materials, Sherman creates a complex portrait of a daring aviator struggling for recognition in the early days of flight and a detailed examination of how American flying changed over the twentieth century.
Author | : Betty Riegel |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2013-03-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1471112276 |
New York, 1961: the dawn of the commercial Jet Age and a golden era of air travel. Betty Riegel spent her early childhood hiding in air-raid shelters as bombs dropped all around. From humble working-class roots, growing up with a mother who struggled to make ends meet and a father away at war, she had always dreamed of bigger things. After responding to an advert in the local newspaper she secured herself an interview for the Pan Am training programme, and at just 22-years-old was selected from thousands of eager young British women to begin a career that would change the course of her life. Betty said goodbye to everything she knew and boarded a plane to New York, a city full of noise, towering skyscrapers and promise. Under the watchful eye of her 'housemother', Dottie, Betty mastered the art of being the perfect Pan Am stewardess; everything from faultless etiquette, geography and safety to seamless make-up application, how to charm influential passengers and preparing five-course Parisian cuisine at 37,000 feet. But no amount of training could have prepared her for the rollercoaster of life in the air. Up in the Aircharts the gruelling yet fabulous life aboard the most iconic airline there has ever been, and how a young woman from Essex opened her eyes to the world and lived her dream.
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Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : Amelia Earhart |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2009-12-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307715930 |
Amelia Earhart's account of her ill-fated last flight around the world, begun in 1937, remains one of the most moving and absorbing adventure stories of all time. Last Flight compiles the letters, diary entries and charts that she sent to her husband, G.P. Putnam at each stage of her trip. In her own words, these dispatches offer a window into her experience on this ground-breaking journey and illustrate her cheerful, charming nature. Her story continues to intrigue and inspire people to this day.
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Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 1879 |
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Author | : Ronlyn Domingue |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 147110561X |
Two strands: first the story of Razi Nolan, growing up in New Orleans in the 1920s, smart, fearless, set on breaking the comfortable family mould by making a career as a doctor. Then she falls in love with Andrew O'Connell and her plans become complicated. She is never able to tell Andrew what she has decided about her future as, one summer morning, she accidentally drowns. By choice, and from where she narrates, she stays between this world and the unknown; every memory of her life remains perfectly intact. More than seventy years later, Razi finds Andrew's once-treasured bookcase at a garage sale. She watches a young couple take it home, Amy and Scott, burdened with secrets of their own. As their once close relationship unravels, Razi remembers her past with Andrew and how she comes to understand what their love ultimately taught her, how he coped after her death, and how the story of Amy and Scott reflects so much of her own.
Author | : Charles N. Williamson |
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Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 1922 |
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