Profiles four female aviators: Jackie Cochran, Sheila Scott, Jerrie Cobb, and Bonnie Tiburzi. Also describes the Ninety-Nines association of female pilots, and the record-setting flights of Amelia Earhart, Beryl Markham, and other female aviation pioneers.

Tells the story of Amelia Earhart's life - as a child, a woman, and a pilot - and describes the search for her missing plane.

In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment--nicknamed the "night witches"--faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went to...

Full-color photographs of people, places, and artifacts; definitions of key words; and sidebars on related subjects add dimension and relevance to this book. Earhart, Amelia.

Introduces to readers the life and legacy of the first female air pilot who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 while on a flight around the world.

Describes the life of the pilot who, in 1932, was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean, and who was later lost at sea while attempting to fly around the world.

Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman aviator, was a barnstormer and flying circus performer in the early days of American aviation before her death in an airplane crash in 1926.