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Nancy Batson Crews

Alabama's First Lady of Flight

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

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Nancy Batson Crews

Alabama's First Lady of Flight

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

A riveting oral history/biography of a pioneering woman aviator. This is the story of an uncommon woman--high school cheerleader, campus queen, airplane pilot, wife, mother, politician, business-woman--who epitomizes the struggles and freedoms of women in 20th-century America, as they first began to believe they could live full lives and demanded to do so. World War II offered women the opportunity to contribute to the work of the country, and Nancy Batson Crews was one woman who made the most of her privileged beginnings and youthful talents and opportunities. In love with flying from the time she first saw Charles Lindbergh in Birmingham, (October 1927), Crews began her aviation career in 1939 as one of only five young women chosen for Civilian Pilot Training at the University of Alabama. Later, Crews became the 20th woman of 28 to qualify as an "Original" Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) pilot, employed during World War II shuttling P-38, P-47, and P-51 high-performance aircrafts from factory to staging areas and to and from maintenance and training sites. Before the war was over, 1,102 American women would qualify to fly Army airplanes. Many of these female pilots were forced out of aviation after the war as males returning from combat theater assignments took over their roles. But Crews continued to fly, from gliders to turbojets to J-3 Cubs, in a postwar career that began in California and then resumed in Alabama. The author was a freelance journalist looking to write about the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) when she met an elderly, but still vital, Nancy Batson Crews. The former aviatrix held a reunion of the surviving nine WAFS for an interview with them and Crews, recording hours of her own testimony and remembrance before Crews's death from cancer in 2001. After helping lead the fight in the '70s for WASP to win veteran status, it was fitting that Nancy Batson Crews was buried with full military honors.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817355537

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9780817355531

WASP of the Ferry Command

Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

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WASP of the Ferry Command

Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds

By: Sarah Byrn Rickman

WASP of the Ferry Command is the story of the women ferry pilots who flew more than nine million miles in 72 different aircraft—115,000 pilot hours—for the Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, during World War II. In the spring of 1942, Col. William H. Tunner lacked sufficient male pilots to move vital trainer aircraft from the factory to the training fields. Nancy Love found 28 experienced women pilots who could do the job. They, along with graduates of the Army's flight training school for women--established by Jacqueline Cochran--performed this duty until fall 1943, when manufacture of trainers ceased. In December 1943 the women ferry pilots went back to school to learn to fly high-performance WWII fighters, known as pursuits. By January 1944 they began delivering high performance P-51s, 47s, and 39s. Prior to D-Day and beyond, P-51s were crucial to the air war over Germany. They had the range to escort B-17s and B-24s from England to Berlin and back on bombing raids that ultimately brought down the German Reich. Getting those pursuits to the docks in New Jersey for shipment abroad became these women's primary job. Ultimately, more than one hundred WASP pursuit pilots were engaged in this vital movement of aircraft.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574416375

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Guide to Evaluating Airport Governance Structures

By: Russell William Mills,Deminique Heiks,Will Burns,Sarah Arnold (Aviation consultant),Douglas Gregory,Haylee Koester

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Guide to Evaluating Airport Governance Structures

By: Russell William Mills,Deminique Heiks,Will Burns,Sarah Arnold (Aviation consultant),Douglas Gregory,Haylee Koester

Airports across the United States are owned and operated by a wide variety of governance structures, each with their own features and historical legacies. As the common refrain from airport professionals goes, if you've seen one airport, you've seen one airport. Similarly, if you've seen one airport's governance structure, you've seen one airport's governance structure. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 245: Guide to Evaluating Airport Governance Structures provides valuable tools to help communities evaluate the effectiveness of their current governance structure and consider alternative governance structures at airports. Supplemental to the report is a web app to search and query an online database of the key governance attributes of more than 98% of the airports in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS).

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0309687489

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9780309687485

Guidebook for Through-the-fence Operations

By: Stephanie A. D. Ward,Regan A. Schnug,Jeff A. Kohlman,Paul A. Meyers,Daniel S. Reimer,Summer Marr,Sarah Arnold (Aviation consultant),Kevin Shirer

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Guidebook for Through-the-fence Operations

By: Stephanie A. D. Ward,Regan A. Schnug,Jeff A. Kohlman,Paul A. Meyers,Daniel S. Reimer,Summer Marr,Sarah Arnold (Aviation consultant),Kevin Shirer

Examines the issues involved in through-the-fence (TFF) operations. This guidebook will help airport operators who currently have TFF operations at their airport as well as through who are evaluating TFF activities for their airports"--Foreword.

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0309307929

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Nancy Batson Crews

Nancy Batson Crews

WASP of the Ferry Command

WASP of the Ferry Command

Guide to Evaluating Airport Governance Structures

Guide to Evaluating Airport Governance Structures

Guidebook for Through-the-fence Operations

Guidebook for Through-the-fence Operations

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