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Wings of Their Own.(Video Recording Review)
Wings of Their Own. DVD. color. 1:23 hrs. Make Believe TV. 2004, 2005 release. ISBN 0-9770218-0-7. $24.95.
Gr 9 Up--This unique documentary provides a history of women's aviation in the 20th century. Through vintage black-and-white photographs and interviews with over 150 women pilots, film director Mary Scott chronicles how women (who have consistently held 6 percent of U.S. pilots' jobs) started in early aviation (Amelia Earhart, African-American aviation pioneer Bessie Coleman, the Ninety-Nines) and continue to blaze new trails in commercial aviation (Delta Airlines' Captain Terry London Rinehart), the armed forces (U.S. Air Force pilot Terry Van den Dolder), and …
