She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—a
Here is the brief but intense life of Bessie Coleman, America's first African American woman aviator. Born in 1892 in Atlanta, Texas, she became known as “Queen Bess,” a barnstormer and flying-circus
"In Doris Rich's latest aviation biography, barefoot, illiterate Bessie Pittman reinvents herself as Jacqueline Cochran, the brash beautician who set more speed and altitude records than any pilot in
" Avez-vous lu Vers l'Ouest avec la nuit ? ... C'est un sacre bon livre. " Ce commentaire d'Hemingway dans sa correspondance permit dans les annees quatre-vingt de redecouvrir Beryl Markham, pionniere
