Aviation History

AN ELEMENT OF RISK

You come across some interesting personalities when you delve into aviation history. In this issue we have a feature by Eileen A. Bjorkman about Jacqueline Cochran, starting on page 52. If you don’t know the name, Cochran was a record-setting pilot in the 1930s who won the Burbankto-Cleveland Bendix Trophy Race in 1938. During World War II she sought ways

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