Powder Puff Derby: Petticoat Pilots and Flying Flappers

by Mike Walker

Book Overview

This book follows the early years of women aviators from the end of World War I through the madcap years of the 1920s to the establishment of aviation as a serious part of defense and commercial... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470851414
• ISBN13: 9780470851418
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Fabulous Flights of Fancy

A well written, informative, entertaining page turner that discusses early aviatrixes and details their often exciting lives (e.g., Pancho Barnes, Chubbie Miller). If you like reading about adventurous, unconventional trailblazers and the attendant salacious details of their escapades this book is sure to please.