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Soar beside Black Hawk helicopter pilot turned politician Tammy Duckworth, hot air balloonist Edgora McEwan, or medevac pilot Dede Murawsky. Higher up, meet commercial and military aviators such as the Coast Guard's Ronaqua Russell, the first African American female to receive the prestigious Air Medal for her rescue efforts during Hurricane Harvey.
Next, ride along with Tammie Jo Shults, whose story includes a harrowing catastrophic engine failure while in command of 148 people aboard Southwest's Flight 1380. Others share their experiences in military high-performance jets, the Stratotanker, or while flying for the Blue Angels.
Reaching past the bounds of Earth are astronauts who have launched in the cramped Russian rocket, the Soyuz, orbited Earth while conducting critical science experiments, or lived aboard the International Space Station.
In all cases, the women in this book faced obstacles. Throughout their rise to incredible accomplishment, these courageous go-getters persevered and endured, insisting on success. Ultimately, each succeeded on her path to flight.
These diverse high-flyers are dreamers and doers who believed, despite the odds, that soaring is possible.
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- ISBN: 9781641605922
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- ISBN: 9781641605922
- File size: 1474 KB
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- English
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- Lexile® Measure: 990
- Text Difficulty: 5-7
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May 15, 2022
Brief biographies of female pilots and astronauts to encourage young would-be aviators. Glossy minibiographies describe the childhoods and professional trajectories of women working in careers such as pilot, astronaut, balloonist, and businessperson. Though some are famous (Sen. Tammy Duckworth, for example, and all of the astronauts) and some are groundbreaking (such as Puerto Rican Olga Custodio, who was the U.S. Air Force's first Latina military pilot), others are everyday women who chose cool jobs. There's Brooke Roman, a pilot for an oil company in Alaska, and Edgora McEwan, a hot air balloon pilot from Uzbekistan who works in the United Arab Emirates. Other than McEwan and Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman astronaut, the subjects are American, and the majority are military, a career path that is presented positively. A passion for aircraft permeates the whole, and the strongest of the sidebars delve into the mechanics of aircraft. The women of color (comprising about half the subjects) are almost invariably identified by race, while the White women are not, situating Whiteness as a default. Some achievements are presented as notable firsts, though most of the sexism and racism the women have experienced are sanitized and situated firmly in the past. Despite some awkward turns of phrase, this is an accessible volume highlighting women in fields where they remain underrepresented. A collective biography showing flight careers as normal, exciting, and attainable. (notes) (Nonfiction. 12-15)COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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