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Flying High: Pioneer Women in American Aviation
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $31.99
ISBN13: 9781531606503
Publisher: Arcadia Lib Ed
Published: May 28 2002
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
demanding more freedom. What could bring more freedom
than a chance to fly? Women went up in those early wire-andfabric contraptions to gain independence, to make money, or to make their names as pilots. They sought to prove that women pilots could do just as well as men--and some did far better. Flying High: Pioneer Women in American Aviation tells the story of Blanche Stuart Scott, who made $5,000 a week and
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