Word: aviatrix
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Evelyn Olliphant de Seversky, 60, wife of Plane Designer Alexander de Seversky and herself a notable aviatrix, a New Orleans socialite who in 1930 took up flying to surprise her husband, by the late '30s was expert enough to help test-fly his planes until a heart condition grounded her; by her own hand (.38-cal. pistol); in Northport...
...Donnell, a Long Beach, Calif., businesswoman and pioneer aviatrix, charged that Mrs. Schlafly's right-wing views would create dissension in the ranks of G.O.P. distaff stalwarts in '68. Gladys also challenged some of her rival's original notions: one of Phyllis's more notable contentions is that the Johnson Administration has laid plans to legalize polygamy for the elderly. Anyway, observed Mrs. O'Donnell's ladies with quiet satisfaction, any responsible mother with all those children ought to be home with her family. After two days of such deep philosophical meowing, the delegates...
Died. Joan Merriam Smith, 28, daredevil aviatrix who last March set out to retrace the ill-fated Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight plan in hopes of becoming the first woman to solo around the world, despite frozen landing gear, leaky gas tanks, engine trouble and poor weather, touched back down at Oakland, Calif., 27,750 miles and 57 days later-only to have a rival, Jerry Mock, flying a route 4,000 miles shorter, beat her by 25 days; of injuries sustained when the rented Cessna 181 she was flying with a friend crashed near Big Pine, Calif...
Into the Wire. For nine days the races went on-hair-raising stunt competitions (one pilot painted his name in big letters upside down on his plane for easier reading), a balloon race, skydiving, a pylon race for ladies. During the cavalry-charge start, one plucky aviatrix banked so boldly that she clipped a wing on the ground, somehow landed safely, and climbed out cursing her evil luck. But all that was minor compared to the big show: the pylon race for unlimited class planes, souped-up World War II Mustangs and Grumman Bearcats capable of speeds...
...needle-nosed F-104G Super Starfighter boomed over the measured ten-mile course at 37,000 ft. above California's Edwards Air Force Base. Officials checked its speed with radar, and when blonde Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, 57, landed, she had another feather to put in her pretty cap. This time the cosmetics executive (chairman of Jacqueline Cochran, Inc.) had set the women's speed record of 1,429.2 m.p.h. at more than twice the speed of sound, easily shattering eardrums and her own 1963 record of 1,273.1 m.p.h...