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How a few women fought to board planes, then fly them, and finally to break through earth's atmosphere into space.
The story of how women in Canada, from Newfoundland to British Columbia, struggled to win a place in the world of air travel, first as passengers, then as flight attendants and pilots, and, finally, as astronauts. Anecdotes, sometimes humourous and always amazing, trace these women's challenges and successes, their slow march over 100 years from scandal to acceptance, whether in Second World War skies, in hostile northern bush country, and even beyond Earth's atmosphere.
From the time the first woman climbed on board a flying machine as a passenger to the moment a Canadian woman astronaut visited the International Space Station, this is an account of how the sky-blue glass ceiling eventually cracked, allowing passionate and determined "air-crazy" women the opportunity to fly.
Contents
Contents
Foreword by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Before There Were Planes
1 Up, Up in a Basket
The Early Years
2 Daredevil Female Passengers
3 The Flying Schoolgirl: Katherine Stinson
4 It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Madge Graham
5 The American Influence
Dreams Can Come True
6 Early Pioneers
7 Barbara Ann Scott: Queen of the Blades (1928-2012)
8 In the Captain's Seat: Rosella Bjornson Pratt
During the Second World War
9 Angels in the Clouds: Early Stewardesses
10 Margaret Fane Rutledge and the Flying Seven
11 Queen of the Hurricanes: Elsie MacGill
12 Flying Blind: The ATA
New Opportunities
13 Into the Woods: Bush Pilots
14 Around the World: Daphne Schiff and Friends
15 Spies in the Skies: Operation Skywatch
16 Airplane Gymnastics: The Snowbirds
17 Over the Rainbow: Female Astronauts
Afterword
Appendix Milestones in Aviation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
