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About the BookWomen with Wings is a perceptive and highly entertaining celebration of the achievements of female flyers from eighteenth-century balloonists to today's astronauts. For decades female aviators had to defy social prejudices despite having achieved remarkable feats of skill and endurance. From 1910, women pilots in America performed death-defying stunts, and in England during the 1920s, a clutch of aristocratic flyers were flipping from continent to continent in their private planes. By the 1930s women had produced an abundance of record-makers––Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Jean Batten and Beryl Markham among them. The Second World War recruited British and American women to ferry fighters and bombers from factories and airfields, and produced some outstanding pilots from Germany and Russia. Post-war developments included long-distance record flights and the growth of opportunity in commercial and military flight and in space exploration. As well as charting women's progress in aviation, Women with Wings considers fictional images of female flyers in comic-strips, magazines, books-from girls' adventure tales to romances. This book is both amusing and enlightening in its research on the determination and struggles of women to fly. Reviews"A well-written and well-researched volume which is highly absorbing and illuminating. A must for all aviation enthusiasts, male and female alike!"––AIRCRAFT ILLUSTRATED "Cadogan's brisk book moves along on automatic pilot in the drama-packed pre-1945 years when flying was an adventure rather than an industry."––THE OBSERVER "Mary Cadogan has written a very readable account of women in aviation from the earliest balloon ascent to Flight Lt Julie Gibson, the RAF's first female pilot to graduate."––AIR INTERNATIONAL |
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