JACKIE COCHRAN: The First Lady Of Flight And Pioneering U.S. Air & Space Women | Full Documentary

Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran was an American pilot and business executive. She pioneered women's aviation, as did Amelia Earhart, Eileen Collins, and Lorraine Rodgers.
Learn about these four exceptional women and their accomplishments.
Jackie Cochran was one of the most prominent racing pilots of her generation, She set numerous records and was the first woman to break the sound barrier on 18 May 1953. Cochran (along with Nancy Love) was the wartime head of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (1943–1944), which employed about 1000 civilian American women in a non-combat role to ferry planes from factories to port cities. Cochran was later a sponsor of the Mercury 13 Women astronaut program.

Eileen Marie Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and United States Air Force (USAF) colonel. A former flight instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission.
A graduate of Corning Community College, where she earned an associate degree in mathematics in 1976, and Syracuse University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and economics in 1978, Collins was commissioned as an officer in the USAF through Syracuse's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program. She was one of four women chosen for Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. After earning her pilot wings, she stayed on at Vance for three years as a T-38 Talon instructor pilot before transitioning to the C-141 Starlifter at Travis Air Force Base, California.

Lorraine Zillner Rodgers was a Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) pilot for the United States Army Air Forces.
Born Lorraine Zillner in Park Ridge, Illinois, she went on to graduate from the University of Illinois and began working in the office of Chicago's Douglas Aircraft facility. Fascinated with aircraft since childhood, she would spend her free time on the factory floor, admiring the C-54 Skymasters being produced there. After a test pilot took her for a ride in one, she began weekend flying lessons in a Piper J-3 Cub.
Once the United States committed its involvement in World War II and male pilots were being called to serve, the WASP program was created for domestic support. Zillner had read that interviews for women with pilot licenses were being held for the experimental program. Despite not having a license and, initially, only eight of the 35 required hours of flight time, she was accepted for training two weeks later via telegram from the Department of the Army.

Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and writer. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
Born and raised in Atchison, Kansas, and later in Des Moines, Iowa, Earhart developed a passion for adventure at a young age, steadily gaining flying experience from her twenties. In 1928, Earhart became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane (accompanying pilot Wilmer Stultz), for which she achieved celebrity status. In 1932, piloting a Lockheed Vega 5B, Earhart made a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a feat. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. In 1935, Earhart became a visiting faculty member at Purdue University as an advisor to aeronautical engineering and a career counselor to female students. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. Known as one of the most inspirational American figures in aviation from the late 1920s throughout the 1930s, Earhart's legacy is often compared to the early aeronautical career of pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, as well as to figures like First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for their close friendship and lasting impact on the issue of women's causes from that period.

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[ImWearingPantsNow]

Weird. I listen to these long compilations while I am driving. I arrived in Elmira, NY right as the Eileen Collins segment was starting. That was fun.

[ghowell]

Thanks for another great compilation video.
I watched it the whole way through, although i was tempted to stop it, to share with my 12 year old daughter later.
Oh, well. Guess ill have to re-watch it with her!
Thanks again for the content!!

[-Hands]

"Thank You" for my FREEDOM and Rest in Peace, my Lady...

[الشرقأحمر]

Thank you for this movie and reminding this heroine.

[frankducett]

That was a C-5 you showed, not a C-141.

[compactgirl]

So I googled her cosmetics and I'm surprise that I own a powder compact from her cosmetics line. ❤

[cjs]

I was surprised to discover that Jackie was not a recipient of the Colliers Trophy and therefore was not the first woman to receive that honor. Maybe in the beginning it was because she was on the Board. But later on in her life she shouldn't have been denied. Unfortunately that honor went to Jenna Yeager. If not Jackie, I believe, there were a number of other women aviators that were more deserving.

[carolecarr]

WRONG Title - Amelia Earhart qualified for that title. Jackie was awesome.e no doubt but Amelia earned that title.