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Canadian Women in the Sky

Autor Elizabeth Gillan Muir
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 noi 2015
"Canadian Women in the Sky traces a century of Canadian women's progress in aviation and space flight. From the first woman to climb on aboard a flying machine as a passenger to a female astronaut's second visit to the International Space Station, these women cracked the sky-blue glass ceiling to achieve their dreams."--
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781459731875
ISBN-10: 1459731875
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: DUNDURN GROUP

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Contents

  • Foreword by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Before There Were Planes
    • 1Up, Up in a Basket
  • The Early Years
    • 2Daredevil Female Passengers
    • 3The Flying Schoolgirl: Katherine Stinson
    • 4It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Madge Graham
    • 5The American Influence
  • Dreams Can Come True
    • 6Early Pioneers
    • 7Barbara Ann Scott: Queen of the Blades (1928-2012)
    • 8In the Captain's Seat: Rosella Bjornson Pratt
  • During the Second World War
    • 9Angels in the Clouds: Early Stewardesses
    • 10Margaret Fane Rutledge and the Flying Seven
    • 11Queen of the Hurricanes: Elsie MacGill
    • 12Flying Blind: The ATA
  • New Opportunities
    • 13Into the Woods: Bush Pilots
    • 14Around the World: Daphne Schiff and Friends
    • 15Spies in the Skies: Operation Skywatch
    • 16Airplane Gymnastics: The Snowbirds
    • 17Over the Rainbow: Female Astronauts
  • Afterword
  • AppendixMilestones in Aviation
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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