"Darkbrador" (darkbrador)
08/18/2020 at 16:18 • Filed to: None
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"Darkbrador" (darkbrador)
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Gurl ...
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ttyymmnn
> Darkbrador
08/18/2020 at 16:33 |
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“I’m gonna be a f**king pilot.”
Yes. I’m sure that’s exactly what she said. Nice tribute, though.
ETA: I just finished it . That was awesome.
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ttyymmnn
> Darkbrador
08/18/2020 at 16:49 |
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So, here’s a related trivia question: Since Bessie Coleman had to go to France to get her license, w ho was the first African American woman to get a pilot’s license in the US?
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Darkbrador
08/18/2020 at 16:51 |
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Hey: this was really cool.
Just Jeepin'
> ttyymmnn
08/18/2020 at 16:55 |
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Willa Brown, it appears.
https://www.biography.com/news/bessie-coleman-black-pilots
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ttyymmnn
> Just Jeepin'
08/18/2020 at 16:58 |
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That would be correct. I hope you didn’t cheat! From the TDIAH archives:
July 18, 1992 – The death of Willa Brown, the first African American woman to earn a pilot’s license in the United States. Brown was also the first African American woman to serve as an officer in the Civil Air Patrol, the first to run for Congress, and the first woman of any race to hold both a pilot’s and mechanic’s license in the US. Brown was born on January 22, 1906 in Glasgow, Kentucky and earned her private pilot’s license in 1938 and her commercial pilot’s license the following year. She worked with others to form the National Airmen’s Association of America (formerly the National Negro Airmen Association of America) to encourage other African Americans to enter the field of aviation, and helped start the Coffey School of Aeronautics in Chicago. As a lobbyist, Brown advocated for the desegregation of the Army Air Corps and the Civilian Pilot Training Corps at a time when the government felt that African Americans were unfit to fly. From 1972-1975, she served on the Women’s Advisory Committee of the Federal Aviation Administration, the first black woman to do so. Brown was named one of the 100 most influential women in aviation by Women in Aviation International in 2002, and was inducted into the Kentucky Aviation Hall of Fame.
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Just Jeepin'
> ttyymmnn
08/18/2020 at 17:03 |
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Duh, obviously I cheated.