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Powder Puff Derby: Petticoat Pilots and Flying Flappers
ISBN: 978-0-470-85140-1
Hardcover
304 pages
July 2003
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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.