#167 Jackie Cochran (Aviation)

I'm Jackie Cochran, she said, pumping my hand. Great job, Captain Yeager. We're all really proud of you. She invited me to lunch, acting as if I should know exactly who she was. And cause an uproar just by entering the Posh Washington restaurant.

The owner began bowing and scraping, and the waiters went flying. In between pumping me for all the details of my flights, I learned a little about who she was. She was a honcho on several important aviation boards and committees. And was a famous aviatrix before the war. Winner of the Bendrix Air Races.

She had been a close friend of Amelia Earhart's. During the war she was a colonel in charge of the Wasps. The women's Air Force Service Pilots. and ferried B seventeen bombers to England. Hell.

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