Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden (born Louise McPhetridge; November 12, 1905 – November 9, 1979) was an American aviation pioneer, holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix trophy, alongside Blanche Noyes.[1] She was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Historical Society's Hall of Fame in 1980.[2]
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Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden (born Louise McPhetridge; November 12, 1905 – November 9, 1979) was an American aviation pioneer, holder of numerous aviation...
It is also known as Louise M. Thaden Field or LouiseThaden Field, a name it was given in 1951 to honor Louise McPhetridge Thaden (1905–1979), an aviation...
women's equality from the 1920's and 1930's in the US: Amelia Earhart, LouiseThaden, Ruth Elder, Ruth Rowland Nichols, and Florence Klingensmith "Fly Girl"...
Africa and back across Europe. LouiseThaden and Blanche Noyes won the 1936 Bendix trophy in a Model C17R Staggerwing. Thaden also won the Harmon Trophy for...
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Ohio, was held as part of the 1929 National Air Races and was won by LouiseThaden. Marie Marvingt of France, who had first proposed the idea of using...
becomes the first woman pilot in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. March 16: LouiseThaden does the women's endurance record with a time of 22 hours and 3 minutes...
in dense fog and a snowstorm. In 1936, she teamed up as co-pilot to LouiseThaden (a fellow 1929 Women's Air Derby competitor) and won the Bendix Trophy...
Lay Jr. I Wanted Wings 1937 Frank Glasgow Tinker Some Still Live 1938 LouiseThaden High, Wide and Frightened 1938 Igor Sikorsky The Story of the Winged-S...
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first pilot to qualify for the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron LouiseThaden Delta Iota aviation pioneer, the first woman to win the Bendix trophy...
known as "the Powder Puff Derby", seven flew Travel Airs and it was LouiseThaden who won the Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland race. Opal Kunz finished...
Little Rock Nine Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882–1976), social activist LouiseThaden (1905–1979), aviation pioneer Jefferson Thomas (1942–2010), civil rights...
the 1936 transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race. Beech-sponsored pilot LouiseThaden, along with Blanche Noyes as co-pilot, won the race against some of...
Monica, California, on 18 August for Cleveland, Ohio. Nichols crashed, LouiseThaden won, while Earhart finished third in the heavy class. During the 1930s...
Bendix, taking fifth and sixth places, respectively, in 1933. In 1936, LouiseThaden and her copilot Blanche Noyes won the race. Laura Ingalls finished second...
Zealand) Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann, Germany; Ernest De Muyter, Belgium Mrs. LouiseThaden, USA; James Diamond, USA; Carl Götze Jr., Germany; Harry Frank Broadbent...
Aircraft Corporation. The museum was founded by Carolyn and Richard Perry, LouiseThaden, W. C. Yarbrough, and John Parrish in October 1973 as the Staggerwing...
trip in 13:34:05 hours, setting a new record. On September 4, 1936, LouiseThaden and Blanche Noyes flew a Beechcraft, powered by a Wright Whirlwind engine...
Hoffman, Austrian-born car importer and businessman (d. 1981) 1905 – LouiseThaden, American pilot (d. 1979) 1906 – George Dillon, American soldier and...
1896) November 5 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909) November 9 – LouiseThaden, American aviation pioneer (b. 1905 November 23 – Judee Sill, American...
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