Fly girls: how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
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Keith O'Brien weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Kingensmith, a high school dropout who worked for a dry cleaner in Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama housewife; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Rith Nichols, who chafed at the constraints of her blue blood family's expetations; and Luise Thaden, the mother of two young kids who got her start selling coal in Wichita, Kansas. Together they fought for the chance to race aganst the men--and in 1936 one of them would triumph in the toughest race of all.
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Airplane racing -- United States.
Bendix Trophy race (1936)
Earhart, Ameliaq, -- 1897-1937.
Elder, Ruth, -- 1902-1977.
Klingensmith, Florence Gunderson, -- 1904-1933.
Nichols, Ruth, -- 1901-1960.
Thaden, Louise McPhetridge, -- 1905-1979.
Women air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
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O'Brien, K. (2019). Fly girls: how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history. Large Print Edition. Farmington Hills, Michigan, Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)O'Brien, Keith, 1973-. 2019. Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History. Farmington Hills, Michigan, Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)O'Brien, Keith, 1973-, Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History. Farmington Hills, Michigan, Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)O'Brien, Keith. Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History. Large Print Edition. Farmington Hills, Michigan, Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
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