A SKY OF MY OWN is the story of a remarkable woman's discovery of the endless challenge and the joy of flying. Molly Bernheim's flying experience began twelve years ago. Until t hen, she had led and active and varied life-teaching biochemistry, performing research, managing a home and raising children-yet she felt the need to do something new. When her husband decide to learn to fly, Mrs. Bernheim was at first uneasy, believing that light planes were...

"This is the story of the first women naval aviators and their struggles and triumphs as they earned their Wings of Gold, learned to fly increasingly sophisticated jet fighters and helicopters, mastered aircraft carrier landings, served at sea, and reached heights of command that would have been unthinkable less than a generation before. It is also the story of the legacy they left behind"--

"Six months before the famous Wright Brothers' first flight, Aída de Acosta became the first woman to fly a powered aircraft."--

Between 1942 and 1944, nearly two thousand women joined the Women's Airforce Service Pilots, flying cargo planes, bombers, and fighters in some of the war's most dangerous missions