Powder Puff Derby: Heroines of the Skies 63,99 zł
- Typ Okładki - Książka w miękkiej oprawie
- Wydawnictwo - John Wiley & Sons
- Ilość stron - 304
- Rozmiar - 19.7 x 12.5 x 2.4 cm
- Autor - Mike Walker
- Język książki - Angielski
Product Description Review “… an interesting, lively account…” (Good Book Guide, May 2004) “… about the eccentric and brave women of the pioneering days of air racing.” (Oxford Times, 14 May 2004) From the Inside Flap Cowboy journalist, Will Rogers called it the Powder Puff Derby. After all, who had ever heard of such an outrageous idea as dames in planes? Worse, dames racing planes 2,700 miles from California to Cleveland. One reporter reckoned that far from finding the finishing line, the ‘girls’ would have trouble finding somewhere to powder their noses. He was wrong and one sunny day in 1929 nineteen young women set out to prove it. The planes were primitive and the navigational equipment non–existent. Half the time, the pilots followed railway lines across the prairies, or arrows painted on barn roofs – and yet, despite crashes, sabotage and storms, they made it and encouraged women everywhere to demand the same freedom and independence that flying had given them. Careless of their own safety and the prejudice of male pilots (‘the menace is the woman who thinks she should be flying… when she hasn’t the intelligence to scrub the floor’), they strove to break new records – for height, speed, endurance and distance. They became stars and, in the spirit of the age, flew for the sheer joy of it, blazing a vapour trail that future generations of women pilots would follow into the wide blue yonder. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. See all Product Description
