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Taking Flight - The Nadine Ramsey Story (Hardcover)
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Taking Flight - The Nadine Ramsey Story (Hardcover)
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In October 1944 Nadine Ramsey was thirty-three and she was flying
the cutting-edge P-51 Mustang to New Jersey, its last stop before
heading to the war in Europe. The irrepressible young woman from
Wichita had long been determined to fly and the gathering storm
clouds of World War II had provided an unexpected opportunity.
Taking Flight is the inspiring story of a girl from Depression-era
Kansas who overcame tremendous challenges and defied convention to
become an elite pilot - one of the few American women to fly
fighter aircraft during World War II. Taking Flight follows Nadine
as she became one of 1,102 women to join the Women's Airforce
Service Pilots and one of only 303 WASPs to take to the skies in
military cockpits, transporting aircraft to bases across the nation
for use in the theaters of war. This book marks her milestones: the
first Kansas woman to earn a commercial pilot license; among the
earliest women to fly the US Air Mail; one of only 26 WASPs who
flew the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a fighter aircraft - and the
first woman to own one; the only woman in the country to instruct
male pilots to fly fighter planes after the war. Disbanded in late
1944 to make way for male pilots and barred from piloting for
commercial airlines, the WASPs spent the next three decades
fighting to win veteran status. Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey
Story is a profile in courage of a woman who helped clear the
flight path for today's female combat and commercial aviators.
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