Title: Fly Girls Pdf How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculed—until a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice.
Fly Girls weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout from Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorcée; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at her blue blood family’s expectations; and Louise Thaden, the young mother of two who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to fly and race airplanes—and in 1936, one of them would triumph, beating the men in the toughest air race of them all.
Amazing story telling This book was very enjoyable and so well researched. I never knew there were so many women who were willing to attempt the things that these pilots dared to do! Very courageous and completely in love with flying.High hopes, disappointed This is a subject, and specific individuals, that have not been given the attention they deserve. I was hoping this book would paint a picture of the true challenges they faced and the things they accomplished in the face of determined public opposition and outright sabotage, in some instances. I was first surprised that the author would use the same title as a much better book "Fly Girls" about the WASPs of World War II. Things got worse when I started reading the book. For a technical subject such as aviation, one would have thought that the author would have had someone with technical knowledge do at least a quick bit of proofreading. Somehow airplanes became "airships." Huh? Airships are dirigibles or blimps. The repeat of that error became painful. Single-engine airplanes were described as having throttles, plural, while multi-engine airplane had a throttle, singular. Technical details regarding aircraft and what goes on in flight were repeatedly wrong - yet the author stressed the importance of the fact that each of those incredible pilots spent an exhaustive amount of time assuring that they didn't miss any technical details when flying. If only the author had done the same.While it moved the story along, a fair amount of the details about the pilots' lives read a bit like a costume drama.Much is made of Louise Thaden's husband developing an all-metal airplane, as if he were somehow cutting edge. He wasn't even close - the Germans were making all-metal transports in World War I and Henry Ford's captive company, Stout, was making them by the mid-1920s.The author repeated the mistaken claim that Richard Byrd was the first to fly over the north pole. That claim was debunked years ago and shouldn't have been in a well-researched book.It might have helped to describe some of the airplanes flown by the women more carefully as some of them were simply awful, requiring a huge amount of skill to fly, and land, safely. Most of the airplanes designed in the 1920s and early 1930s had marginal or worse stability in various axes, lousy control harmony and systems (fuel, electrical, hydraulic) that could be confusing, counter-intuitive and just plain dangerous to a pilot who did not fully understand the details. Such details alone would help to describe just how great the pilots who flew those airplanes great distances (in often hideous weather when weather forecasting was essentially nonexistent) truly were.For someone unfamiliar with the incredible women portrayed in this book, it's a good place to start to learn about them. I'm hoping someone will eventually do a definitive book on those great women. I'm just disappointed I spent the money on this one.Writing style of author was reporter based; a difficult read Read for book club. Was recommended by Parade Magazine. This book was written in reporter writing style meaning all overall details were given even if the details did not add to the story; therefore although this is a short book, under 200 pages, it was a hard read. When this book was reviewed by our book club, the majority of our members agreed. I would not recommend this book.
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