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Description
Characteristics
| ISBN-13 | 9780553052114 |
| ISBN-10 | 0-553-05211-X |
| Book cover finish(es) | Hardcover ( rounded spine binding ) |
| Special Features | Dust Jacket |
| Condition | Good |
| Author(s) | Jacqueline Cochran, Maryann Bucknum Brinley |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
| Number of pages | 358 |
| Published date | 1987 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Size | 16 x 23 x 3 cm |
| Categorie(s) | • AVIATION CIVILE • BIOGRAPHIES |
Description
Jackie Cochran left an indelible mark on the history of aviation. At the time of her death in 1980, she held more speed, altitude and distance records than any other pilot, male or female. And no one has ever matched her achievement.
Her career in aviation spanned forty years, from the Golden Age of the 1930s as a racing pilot, through the turbulent years of World War II as a founder and head of the Women's Air Force Service Pilot program (WASP), into the jet age when she became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, under the tutelage of her good friend Chuck Yeager. She was the ultimate risk taker in all facets of her life and career, a gutsy, intense, strikingly beautiful woman with fire in her eye and steel in her backbone, living in a man's world and loving it - but always keeping her femininity firmly intact.
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