African-American
Aviators : Bessie Coleman, William J. Powell, James Herman Banning, Benjamin
O. Davis Jr., General Daniel James Jr
by Stanley P. Jones, L. Octavia Tripp
Reading level: Ages 9-12
School & Library Binding - 48 pages (March 1998)
Capstone Press; ISBN: 1560656964
Amelia Earhart - The Centennial Biography of an Aviation Pioneer
by Nancy Shore, Matina S. Horner (Designer)
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Amelia
Earhart's Daughters : The Wild and Glorious Story of American Women Aviators
from World War II to the Dawn of the Space Age
by Leslie Haynsworth, David M. Toomey
Paperback - 336 pages 1st perenn edition (May 30, 2000)
Harperperennial Library; ISBN: 0380729849
Anne Morrow Lindbergh : Her Life
by Susan Hertog, Tina Pohlman (Editor)
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Clipped
Wings : The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs)
of World War II
by Molly Merryman
Hardcover - 272 pages (January 1998)
New York Univ Pr; ISBN: 0814755674
Call
Sign Revlon : The Life and Death of Navy Fighter Pilot Kara Hultgreen
by Sally Spears
Hardcover - 320 pages 1557 edition (November 1998)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557508097
Daughter
of the Air : Brief Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort
Rob Simbeck
With her passion for flying and a lust for life, Cornelia Fort--like
Beryl Markham and Amelia Earhart--came to personify the life of a female
pilot. In this dramatic and riveting biography, Rob Simbeck interweaves
Fort's own eloquent letters and diaries, historical documents, and the
interviews of those who knew and flew with her to create a vivid portrait
of a courageous woman. Cornelia was killed during WWII.
Paperback - 272 pages 1 Pbk Ed edition (May 10, 2001)
Grove Press; ISBN: 0802137911 |
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Lady of the Air : The Harriet Quimby Story
by Sterling Brown
Hardcover - 64 pages 1 Ed edition (March 1999)
Tudor Publishers; ISBN: 0936389494
Up
in the Air : The Story of Bessie Coleman
by Philip S. Hart, Barbara O'Connor
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - 80 pages (June 1996)
Carolrhoda Books; ISBN: 0876149786
Pancho
: The Biography of Florence Lowe Barnes
by Barbara Hunter Schultz
Paperback - 243 pages
Little Buttes Publishing Company; ISBN: 0965218104
Jacqueline
Cochran America's Fearless Aviator
by Nina McGuire, Sandra Wallus Sammons
Paperback - 72 pages (September 1997)
Tailored Tours Pubn; ISBN: 0963124161
Special Order
The Lady and the Tigers: Remembering the Flying Tigers of World War
II
by Olga Greenlaw, Daniel Ford
Olga Greenlaw was the only female pilot of the group that defended
Rangoon, the Burma Road and China in the early days of the Second World
War.
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On
Wings to War : Teresa James, Aviator
by Jan Churchill
Paperback (June 1992)
Sunflower University Press; ISBN: 0897451309
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Jane Raines Pioneer Lady of Flight
by Regina Trice Hawkins
Hardcover - 217 pages (November 1996)
Mercer Univ Pr; ISBN: 0865545324
A
Wasp Among Eagles : A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
by Ann B. Carl
(Paperback - October 2000)
A
Dance With Death : Soviet Airwomen in World War II
by Anne Noggle, Christine A. White (Introduction)
Hardcover - 318 pages (October 1994)
Texas A&M University Press; ISBN: 089096601X
Managing Martians
by Donna Shirley et al.
Donna Shirley dreamed of going to Mars since she was a starstruck kid
in Oklahoma, reading science fiction and staring up at the big Western
sky. Managing Martians chronicles her life from flight-obsessed childhood
to the realization of her dream as manager of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's
Mars Exploration Program--the people who sent Pathfinder and the rover
Sojourner to the red planet in 1997.
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Daring
Lady Flyers : Canadian Women in the Early Years of Aviation
by Joyce Spring
Paperback (April 1994)
Pottersfield Pr; ISBN: 091900184X
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Night
Witches : The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat
by Bruce Myles
Paperback - 272 pages 3 edition (February 1997)
Academy Chicago Pub; ISBN: 0897332881
She's
Just Another Navy Pilot: An Aviator's Sea Journal
by Loree Draude Hirschman, Dave Hirschman (Contributor)
Hardcover: 264 pages
Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 1557503354; (May 12, 2000)
Those
Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines : The Unknown Heroines of World
War Two
by Sally Van Wagenen Keil
Hardcover - 418 pages (May 1994)
Four Directions Pr; ISBN: 0962765902
Wings,
Women, and War : Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat
(Modern War Studies)
by Reina Pennington, John Erickson
Hardcover: 312 pages
Univ Pr of Kansas; ISBN: 0700611452; (January 2002)
Women
and Flight : Portraits of Contemporary Women Pilots
Carolyn Russo, et al
Hardcover / Published 1997
Women
Aviators (American Profiles)
Lisa Yount
Hardcover / Published 1995
The Magnificent Moisants : Champions of Early Flight
by Doris L. Rich
Among the most flamboyant of aviation's pioneers was the Moisant
family. Mathilde Moisant was one of the earliest of licensed women pilots.
Amelia Earhart biographer Doris L. Rich draws on family interviews and
long buried records to revive the Moisants' many adventures both in the
air and on the ground.
Listed under Aviation Pioneers
Yankee
Doodle Gals : Women Pilots Of World War II
by Amy Nathan
Book Description: Here is the fascinating story of the first women
to fly U.S. military aircraft—the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs)
of World War II. Although these pioneers were never allowed to fly in combat,
they did fly in many essential wartime missions—some that the men didn’t
even want to take on.
Through firsthand accounts, these women share their experiences as they
test-fly newly repaired aircraft, drag banners behind their planes so male
trainees can practice shooting moving targets (!), and ferry all kinds
of aircraft from factories to military bases. Their courage, determination,
and lively camaraderie make every page inspiring and surprising.
Yankee Doodle Gals will give today’s young people a new look at World
War II and show them just how dramatically society has changed since then.
Hardcover from National Geographic
Book Published: 01 September, 2001 |
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Beryl Markham
"Like a comet passing through the firmament she lit up all around her.
None who came into contact with her could fail to recognize the genius
of a truly remarkable person."
George Bathurst Norman
West
With the Night
by Beryl Markham 
Born in England in 1902, Markham was taken by her father to East Africa
in 1906. She spent her childhood playing with native Maruni children and
apprenticing with her father as a trainer and breeder of racehorses. In
the1930s, she became an African bush pilot, and in September 1936, became
the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. Amazon.com
Paperback - 294 pages (February 1985)
North Point Press; ISBN: 0865471185 |
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The
Lives of Beryl Markham
by Errol Trzebinski
Concentrating more on the pilot's affairs of the heart rather than
her achievements in aviation, the book explores Markham's relationship
with Finch Hatton for whose affections she vied with Karen Blixen. Db.
Paperback Reprint edition (March 1995)
W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393312526
Beryl
Markham : Never Turn Back (Barnard Biography Series)
by Catherine Gourley, Rosellen Brown
Paperback - 160 pages (March 1997)
Conari Pr; ISBN: 1573240737
Straight On Til Morning
Mary S. Lovell
A biography of Beryl Markham
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Splendid Outcast : Beryl Markham's African Stories
by Beryl Markham, Mary S. Lovell (Compiler)
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Hanna Reitsch
The
Sky My Kingdom
by Hanna Reitsch
(Paperback - April 1997)
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From
Nazi Test Pilot to Hitler's Bunker
by Dennis Piszkiewicz
This is the amazing story of Hanna Reitsch, one of the most celebrated
women of the Third Reich. As a decorated test pilot for the Luftwaffe and
a protege of Hitler, Reitsch was one of a handful of women who achieved
personal success by breaking from the traditionaly defined role of wife
and mother in Nazi Germany. Amazon.com
Hardcover - 168 pages
Praeger Pub Trade; ISBN: 0275954560 |
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Hanna Reitsch: Flying for the Fatherland.
by Lomax, Judy.
Murray, Lond, 1st (1988)
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Women in Air War: The Eastern Front of World War II
by Kazimiera J. Cottam
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Katherine Stinson: The Flying Schoolgirl
by Debra L. Winegarten
Book Description Flying was a dangerous pursuit in 1912, and
many would-be pilots were killed. But Katherine Stinson was determined
to fly. Because she was a woman, she constantly had to prove herself. Defying
expectations, she quickly became a pioneer of the skies. This long-overdue
book features stunning photographs of Stinson, who racked up many “firsts”—first
precision flyer, first to do preflight inspections, and first to fly solo
at night. She also invented night skywriting, amazed audiences...
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Queen of the Air : The Story of Katherine Stinson
by Mary C. Powell et al.
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Christa McAuliffe : Pioneer Space Teacher
by Charlene W. Billings
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Encyclopedia of Women in Aviation and Space
by Rosanne Welch
Library Binding - 286 pages (November 1, 1998)
ABC-CLIO; ISBN: 0874369584
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Jean Batten : The Garbo of the Skies
by Ian Mackersey
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I Live to Fly
by Jacqueline Auriol
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Amy Johnson (Profile Series)
by Eva Bailey
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My God! It's a Woman
by Nancy Bird Walton
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Soaring Above Setbacks; Autobiography of Janet Harmon Bragg
by Janet Harmon Bragg
Hardcover (April 1996)
Smithsonian Institute Press; ISBN: 1560984589
Janet Harmon Bragg, the first African American woman to earn a full
commercial pilot's license, recalls a life of multi-faceted achievement,
in which every obstacle was seen as a challenge.
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In the Sky Above the Front : A Collection of Memoirs of Soviet Airwomen
Participants in the Great Patriotic War
by K.J. Cottam (Editor)
Spiral-bound Photocopy edition (June 1984)
Journal of the West; ISBN: 0891261265
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Winning My Wings : A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II
by Marion Stegeman Hodgson
Hardcover (October 1996)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557503648
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