Trailblazer in Flight

Author: Yvonne Pope Sintes
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473831547
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
“Will appeal to aviation enthusiasts and anyone curious to know how this modest, likeable woman smashed her way through an enormous glass ceiling.” —Surrey Life magazine Yvonne Pope Sintes only ever wanted to fly. But in the 1950s, very few women were allowed into the male dominated world of aviation. Her dream was to join the ranks of the Royal Air Force and, despite an awareness of the pitfalls that might await her, she embarked upon her mission. Her story, told here for the first time and in her own words, is one characterized by gritty determination against the odds. A career trajectory marked by such landmark achievements as becoming the first female Air Traffic Controller with the Ministry of Aviation, the first female civil airline pilot in the UK, and the first female jet airline captain in Britain are relayed in this inspiring autobiography. Bomb scares, engine failures and other perilous episodes punctuated Yvonne’s experience and she received a raft of prestigious awards over the course of her career. All her challenges and triumphs are revealed in this lively narrative for a truly rousing and engrossing read.

Flying Free

Author: Karyn Parsons
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316457194
Category : African American women air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
"The story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn her pilot's license"--

Flight of the Fugitives

Author: Dave Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939445155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
FLIGHT OF THE FUGITIVES Introducing Gladys Aylward Six-year-old Mei-en screamed in terror when she realized her gypsy owner was about to sell her to a foreign lady. Times were hard in the mountainous region of China in 1934, and orphans were often sold for pennies. But foreigners in China were considered "devils," and Mei-en thought surely the little woman in Chinese clothes would eat her for supper! But this time Mei-en's new owner was the compassionate and respected missionary, Gladys Aylward. One day outside her new home, Mei-en saw wonderful silver "birds" flying in the sky-but her delight turned to dread when they began dropping bombs that exploded all over the city. Suddenly their lives, and those of nearly a hundred orphan children, were in terrible danger! With the enemy in hot pursuit, their only escape is over the mountains!

Into That Silent Sea

Author: Francis French
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803226395
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444

Book Description
A history of early space flight focuses on the careers of both American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts and includes coverage of other persons who worked in support roles.

A Motor-Flight Through France (1908) by Edith Wharton

Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher:
ISBN: 0359173381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
Shedding the turn-of-the-century social confines she felt existed for women in America, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. In A Motor-Flight Through France, originally published in 1908, Wharton combines the power of her prose, her love for travel, and her affinity for France to produce this compelling travelogue.

An Ablation Technique for Enhancing Reentry Antenna Performance; Flight Test Results

Author: Dallas T. Hayes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ablation (Aerothermodynamics)
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
To develop alternative solutions to Air Force problems relating to signal transmission in the presence of ionization, AFCRL undertook an extensive investigation of techniques for modifying reentry plasmas. The program included laboratory tests and a series of reentry flight experiments. This report describes the flight test of one successful technique, Teflon ablation, a passive approach that requires no internal support systems. A reentry vehicle fitted with a Teflon-coated nosecap was instrumented to measure antenna impedance mismatch, interantenna coupling, signal attenuation, and charged-particle density. The probe data showed that the local boundary-layer electron density decreased by as much as a factor of 200. The Teflon coating effected a 25-dB decrease in S-band signal attenuation. High-power antenna breakdown was modified by the presence of the ablation products. Details of the vehicle design, flight dynamics, and ablation, are presented, and the results of the Teflon-ablation technique are contrasted with those of a successful liquid-injection technique that was tested on a previous flight.

Flight of the Fugitives

Author: Dave Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556614668
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
After coming to China to work as a missionary in the early 1930s, Gladys Aylward adopts several orphans and tries to save nearly a hundred more during the war between China and Japan.

NASA Scientific and Technical Reports

Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scientific and Technical Information Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1152

Book Description

Description and Performance of Three Trailblazer II Reentry Research Vehicles

Author: Reginald R. Lundstrom
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rockets (Aeronautics)
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description

Wally Funk's Race for Space

Author: Sue Nelson
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1641601337
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Wally Funk was among the Mercury 13, the first group of American pilots to complete NASA's 1961 Women in Space program. Funk breezed through the rigorous physical and mental tests, her scores beating those of many of the male candidates—even John Glenn. Just one week before Funk was to enter the final phase of training, the entire program was abruptly cancelled. Politics and prejudice meant that none of the more-than-qualified women ever went to space. Undeterred, Funk went on to become one of America's first female aviation inspectors and civilian flight instructors, though her dream of being an astronaut never dimmed. In this offbeat odyssey, journalist and fellow space buff Sue Nelson travels with Wally Funk, now approaching her eightieth birthday, as she races to make her giant leap. Covering their travels across the United States and Europe—taking in NASA's mission control in Houston and Spaceport America in New Mexico, where Funk's ride to space awaits—this is a uniquely intimate and entertaining portrait of a true aviation trailblazer.