Women with Wings is a perceptive and highly entertaining celebration of the achievements of female flyers from eighteenth-century balloonists to today’s astronauts.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-271) and index.

Soaring and 'Chuting -- From Ballooning to Barnstorming -- In Combat against the Kaiser -- Aristocratic Ladies and Anthropomorphic Animals -- American Legends and Luminaries -- Amy, Wonderful Amy! -- The Elegant Enigma -- Aviatrices in Australia and Africa -- Winning Through with Worrals -- and the ATA Girls -- Iron Crosses and Russian Roses -- The Fastest Women in the World -- 'This is Your Captain Speaking...' -- Space- and Super-Girls -- Per Ardua ad Aequalitatem.