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Audiobook

Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history

Call Number

  • COMPACT DISC 629.13 O136 (OSH)

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Edition

Unabridged.

Performers

Read by Erin Bennett.

Publication Information

[Minneapolis, MN] : HighBridge Audio, [2018]

Physical Description

10 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

"High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot"--

Notes

Title from container.

Compact discs.

Contents

  • Miracle of Wichita
  • Devotedly, Ruth
  • Real and natural, every inch
  • Fortune of the air
  • Bravest of the fair, fairest of the brave
  • Flying salesgirls
  • Right sort of girl
  • City of destiny
  • If this is to be a derby
  • There is only one Cleveland
  • Good eggs
  • Mr. Putnam and me
  • Law of fate
  • Give a girl credit
  • Grudge flight
  • Spetakkel
  • All things being equal
  • That's what I think of wives flying
  • They'll be in our hair
  • Playing hunches
  • A woman couldn't win
  • Top of the hill.

Subjects

Added Authors

Erin Bennett