Women's Air Derby

So as we were told, they like to think that they did.

And then Gladys O'Donnell over here was one of the great air racers, flew against with the likes of Pedro Barnes, Amelia Earhart, Louise Thaden, finished second to Louise Thaden in one of the cross-country races, the cross-country race, the Women's Air Derby in 1929.

And as we turn around here, we've got sort of the board of results.

And even from 1925 on, pilots in Waco aircraft were doing very well.

So the Women's Air Derby, Gladys was in a CCO.

She finished second to Louise Thaden, won nearly two grand.

Let's see.

Part two, The World of Flight.

The First Women's Air Derby.

In August, the first women's air derby was held.

Amelia left New York and joined the field of nineteen planes in Santa Monica.

This was a kind of competition she liked.

She had gained experience in all kinds of flying, in all kinds of weather.

She had flown coast to coast across the United States four times, twice in Lady Heath's avian and twice in the autogyro.

With her Vega, she had made numerous flights, one of them the Women's Air Derby, in which she placed third in the race from California to Ohio.