Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History [Audiobook] by Keith O'Brien
English | August 7th, 2018 | ASIN: B07FS5QG7C, ISBN: 1684412587 | MP3@64 kbps | 12 hrs 13 mins | 336.20 MB
Narrator: Erin Bennett
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi-day events, and cities vied with one another to host them. The pilots themselves were hailed as dashing heroes who cheerfully stared death in the face. Well, the men were hailed. Female pilots were more often ridiculed than praised for what the press portrayed as silly efforts to horn in on a manly, and deadly, pursuit.