She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nancy Harkness Love who, early in World War II, recruited and led the first group of twenty-eight women to fly military aircraft for the U.S. Army. Love was hooked on flight at an early age. At sixteen, after just four hours of instruction, she flew solo a rather broken down Fleet biplane that my barnstorming instructor imported from parts unknown. The year was 1930: record-setting aviator Jacqueline Cochran (and Love s future rival) had not yet...
She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nancy ...
WASP of the Ferry Command is the story of the women ferry pilots who flew more than nine million miles in 72 different aircraft--115,000 pilot hours--for the Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, during World War II. In the spring of 1942, Col. William H. Tunner lacked sufficient male pilots to move vital trainer aircraft from the factory to the training fields. Nancy Love found 28 experienced women pilots who could do the job. They, along with graduates of the army's flight training school for women--established by Jacqueline Cochran--performed this duty until fall 1943, when...
WASP of the Ferry Command is the story of the women ferry pilots who flew more than nine million miles in 72 different aircraft--115,000 pilot ...
