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Powder Puff Derby: Petticoat Pilots and Flying Flappers扑粉德比：空中女英雄

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Powder Puff Derby: Petticoat Pilots and Flying Flappers扑粉德比：空中女英雄

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作 者：MikeWalker 著 著

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出版时间：2003-7-1

I S B N：9780470851401

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    内容简介
    Cowboy journalist, Will Rogers called it the Powder Puff Derby. After all, who had ever heard of such an outrageous idea as dames in planes? Worse, dames racing planes 2,700 miles from California to Cleveland. One reporter reckoned that far from finding the finishing line, the ‘girls’ would have trouble finding somewhere to powder their noses. He was wrong and one sunny day in 1929 nineteen young women set out to prove it.
    　　The planes were primitive and the navigational equipment non-existent. Half the time, the pilots followed railway lines across the prairies, or arrows painted on barn roofs – and yet, despite crashes, sabotage and storms, they made it and encouraged women everywhere to demand the same freedom and independence that flying had given them.
    　　Careless of their own safety and the prejudice of male pilots (‘the menace is the woman who thinks she should be flying… when she hasn’t the intelligence to scrub the floor’), they strove to break new records - for height, speed, endurance and distance. They became stars and, in the spirit of the age, flew for the sheer joy of it, blazing a vapour trail that future generations of women pilots would follow into the wide blue yonder.

    作者简介
    Mike Walker is a highly experienced script-writer of drama and documentary for radio and television. He has won several awards for plays and adaptations. He has also written novels and non-fiction, and teaches creative writing at Morley College London. His recent work includes an adaptation of The Old Curiosity Shop for Radio 4 and The Dark House, an interactive Drama for BBCi.

    目录
    The Dames in Planes
    Introduction and acknowledgements
    Maps
    1 Clover Field (The Powder Puff Derby of 1929)
    2 Print the legend (Florence ‘Pancho’ Barnes)
    3 Bicycle dreams
    Aerial nymphs and parachute artistes: Elisabeth Thible and Dolly Shepherd
    Early birds: Elise de Laroche, Katherine Stinson, Hilda Hewlett, Harriet Quimby, Melli Beese and Eugenie Shakhovskaya
    4 Death of an unknownwoman (Lady Mary Heath)
    5 Evelyn bobs her hair (Bobbi Trout)
    6 ‘They say I shot a man and killed him’ (Jessie ‘Chubbie’ Miller)
    7 Degrees of di?culty (Bessie Coleman and Hanna Reitsch)
    8 Always stand on the right (Amelia Earhart and Amy Johnson)
    Sources for each chapter
    Select bibliography

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