Walking on air
Janann Sherman · 2011
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About the book
Aviation pioneer Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie (1902-1975) was once one of the most famous women in America. 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. The press labeled her "second only to Amelia Earhart among America's women pilots." 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.
Book details
- Year
- 2011
- Language
- English
- Series
- Willie Morris books in memoir and biography
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Editions
- 6
- Pages
- 196
- ISBN
- 9781617031243
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