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High, wide, and frightened / Louise McPhetridge Thaden ; foreword by Patty Wagstaff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2004Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 170 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781610756501
  • 1610756509
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: High, wide, and frightened.DDC classification:
  • 629.13/092 22
LOC classification:
  • TL540.T48 A3 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Endurance -- A "Hot" Pilot -- Engines Quit Cold -- Speed Record -- Women's Air Derby -- The Whole Family Flies -- Refueling Endurance Flight -- Is It Bravery-or Fright? -- Some Flirting with Disaster -- The Bendix Race -- Hence the Gray Hairs -- Clear and Unlimited.
Summary: Louise Thaden wrote High, Wide, and Frightened in the prime of her life, making this autobiography unique among books about the Golden Age of Aviation. Thaden, a contemporary of Amelia Earhart, was part of a small group of determined women who overcame discrimination and obstacles to become pilots in a time when air races and distance, altitude and endurance records were daily news in America. She became the first woman to win the Bendix Transcontinental Air Race, the premier air race of the day and, before her, a male-dominated one. High, Wide, and Frightened is the story of Thaden's life, of her achievements in aviation, and also of her childhood in Arkansas. She writes about her everyday personal life and her day-to-day experiences in aviation. - Publisher.
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Originally published: New York : Stackpole Sons, [c1938]. With new prologue, epilogue and photographs.

Includes index.

Endurance -- A "Hot" Pilot -- Engines Quit Cold -- Speed Record -- Women's Air Derby -- The Whole Family Flies -- Refueling Endurance Flight -- Is It Bravery-or Fright? -- Some Flirting with Disaster -- The Bendix Race -- Hence the Gray Hairs -- Clear and Unlimited.

Louise Thaden wrote High, Wide, and Frightened in the prime of her life, making this autobiography unique among books about the Golden Age of Aviation. Thaden, a contemporary of Amelia Earhart, was part of a small group of determined women who overcame discrimination and obstacles to become pilots in a time when air races and distance, altitude and endurance records were daily news in America. She became the first woman to win the Bendix Transcontinental Air Race, the premier air race of the day and, before her, a male-dominated one. High, Wide, and Frightened is the story of Thaden's life, of her achievements in aviation, and also of her childhood in Arkansas. She writes about her everyday personal life and her day-to-day experiences in aviation. - Publisher.

Print version record.

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