Word: thaden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn's William G. Warner in a Standard Vultee. But the race was won neither by Pilot Warner nor by Pilot Louis Brewer, the only other male left in the race. For the first time in six years the Bendix Race went to a woman- Louise McPhetridge Thaden. Flying with Co-Pilot Blanche Xoyes in a Beechcraft high-wing biplane. Pilot Thaden started several hours after Warner and Brewer, shot across the U. S. in 14 hr. 54 min. 49 sec., beating by 3 hr. 30 min. the women's East-West record set by Laura Ingalls last...
...Pilots Thaden & Noyes the $7,000 prize money was far less gratifying than the pleasure of beating the men. Among the first ten U. S. women to earn transport licenses, they have for years been front-line fighters in aviation's ''battle of the sexes." A fuzzy-haired blonde of 30, Mrs. Thaden has been flying since 1927, has held the women's speed, altitude and endurance records, is the mother of a 6-year-old son. She and Flyer Noyes both work regularly as air-marking pilots for the Department of Commerce (TIME...
...Louise Thaden, Helen MacCloskey, Nancy Harkness were the original three. When Pilot Harkness resigned to marry, Mrs. Omlie hired Helen Richey. Last week, another aide was appointed, Pilot Blanche Noyes...
Born. To Herbert von Thaden, airplane manufacturer, and Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden, noted aviatrix; a son. Last year Mrs. Thaden won the women's air derby from Santa Monica, Calif, to Cleveland, Ohio in 21 hr. 29 min. flying time; once held a women's endurance record of 22 hr. subsequently bettered by the late Marvel Crosson...