Why Jackie Cochran is one of my role models
Jacqueline Cochran
Cochran was a well-known, award-winning "Aviatrix" prior to World War II. When the war started, she approached the Army Air Forces with a solution to their "manpower" problem. She proposed forming a unit of women pilots to perform domestic flying duties and to free up male pilots for combat duty.
Eventually, the Army organized the Women's Airforce Service Pilots, with Cochran as the director. The WASP were civilians working for the Army. Over one thousand WASP flew military aircraft in the United States as test pilots, ferry pilots, and antiaircraft artillery trainers. After the war, Jackie Cochran went on to become the first woman jet pilot to break the sound barrier and the first woman to win the Bendix Air Race.
She never took no for an answer!
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?Whatever else history may say about me when I?m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty?s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity?s arm steadying your way.?
President Ronald Reagan
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04-03-2004, 07:58 AM
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