Fly Girls

Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds And Made Aviation History, by Keith O'Brien. Taking place mostly in the 1920s and 1930s, this book follows the careers of 5 women flyers, and illustrates the hurtles they over came to compete in a male dominated world. Amelia Earhart is the name we still recognize, but at the time there were other women who were more famous and accomplished. Earhart's legacy survives because she was married to George Putnam, publisher and publicist who kept her legacy going. This is a great story of a time when flying was sometimes extremely dangerous as the technology was pushed in competitions to its limit.