Jacqueline Cochran
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Search complete. 14 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Jacqueline Cochran".
Sep 9, 2026
Tail DraggerHOST
She was possibly orphaned, possibly informally adopted, and the records from those early years are not clean.
Tail DraggerHOST
When she decided to reinvent herself, she picked a name out of a phone book, Jacqueline Cochran.
Tail DraggerHOST
It had a ring to it.
Tail DraggerHOST
It sounded like somebody who was going places.
Tail DraggerHOST
Someone suggested half seriously that she should learn to fly.
Tail DraggerHOST
She did.
Tail DraggerHOST
In 1932, Jacqueline Cochran drove out to Roosevelt Field on Long Island.
Tail DraggerHOST
The same field Charles Lindbergh had departed from five years earlier on the flight to Paris.
Tail DraggerHOST
Points the nose up, goes in that morning.
Tail DraggerHOST
Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman in history to break the sound barrier.
Tail DraggerHOST
I'm Tail Dragger.
Tail DraggerHOST
This is the Hangar on Radio Hangar today.
Tail DraggerHOST
The machinery was loud enough to damage your hearing over years of exposure.
Tail DraggerHOST
And the air was full of cotton fiber that settled into the lungs over a lifetime of shifts.
Tail DraggerHOST
Eight-year-old Jacqueline Cochran tended those machines because the family needed the income.
Tail DraggerHOST
and the mill needed the hands, and nobody in that world asked children what they wanted to be doing.
Kayla MoriaHOST
Records show that while under Hatch and Oldham ownership, the Logan Canyon property hosted famous actors, politicians, and other accomplished people.
Kayla MoriaHOST
Among them was Jacqueline Cochran, Oldham's second wife, who was the first woman to break the sound barrier.
Brittany LindHOST
Oh, hell yeah.
Kayla MoriaHOST
Jensen said, quote, it's rumored that Marilyn Monroe stayed, Joan Crawford, which is before my time.
Judy Stanford MillerGUEST
That was...
Judy Stanford MillerGUEST
Well, it's a very long story, but about the same time in September 42, Jackie Cochran started another division of women pilots, but they needed more training.
Judy Stanford MillerGUEST
They did not have the hours that the originals had.
Judy Stanford MillerGUEST
So that was done down in Texas.
Judy Stanford MillerGUEST
They had to have more than 500 hours at a 200 horsepower rating to even get that check flight.
Judy Stanford MillerGUEST
She had a good friend who flew with her in Pearl Harbor who was just shy of that 500 hours, and she did not get in.
Judy Stanford MillerGUEST
She joined the second, Jackie Cochran's group.
Judy Stanford MillerGUEST
and to get more hours so yes that that was the distinction there cornelia was recruited for this