"Staggerwing" focuses on the historic flight of Blanche Noyes and Louise Thaden, who won the 1936 Bendix Trophy Air Race, the first year female teams could compete.
On this day in aviation history, 88 years ago (July 26, 1937), pioneering aviator Jacqueline Cochran set a new speed record for women pilots in the United States. Flying a Beechcraft D17 Staggerwing ...