Powder puff derby : petticoat pilots and flying flappers / Mike Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Mike, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women air pilots--History.

Women air pilots.

Aeronautics--History.

Aeronautics.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2003.

Summary:

This book follows the early years of women aviators from the end of World War I through the madcap years of the 1920s to the establishment of aviation as a serious part of defense and commercial activities during World War II. Award-winning writer Mike Walker writes about a time of immense social and technical change that radically transformed the position of women and became the golden years for the development of aviation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0470851406

OCLC:

51871532