Fighting for Space Aviation Book These pastel blue and lavender

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In December 2011

Fighting for Space Aviation Book These pastel blue and lavenderWritten by Amy Shira Teitel When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any pilot of the twentieth centuryman or woman. She had led the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots during the Second World War, was the first woman to break the sound barrier, ran her own luxury cosmetics company, and counted multiple presidents among her personal friends. She was more qualified than any woman in the