Skystars: The History of Women In Aviation

By Ann Hodgman and Rudy Djabbaroff

Discusses famous and lesser-known women in aviation from the earliest aviators who flew in balloons in the eighteenth century to modern flight, including gliders and helicopters. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689308701
• ISBN13: 9780689308703
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Atheneum
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

Very Thorough History

"Skystars" covers women in aviation from Madame Thible's first flight in a balloon to the first six women selected at NASA. "Skystars" starts with early flight and moves to airplanes. It covers the barnstorming days, all the record setting flights for speed, altitude, and endurance. There is a chapter on the Women Airforce Service Pilots. The book looks ahead to oportunities for women in aviation. It was published in 1981; women had gotten jobs at airlines and NASA around 1978, so those chapters are very short. I'm afraid I can't validate the accurracy of the accomplishments of the people cited in the book, but I did enjoy it.