Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} High-Flying Women A World History of Female Pilots by Alain Pelletier High-Flying Women: A World History of Female Pilots. High-Flying Women In the early days of aviation, the decision to become a pilot was not one to be taken lightly. The women who embarked upon this adventurous career had to demonstrate boldness, dedication and patience. This book covers various areas of aviation and traces the careers of female pilots all over the world. Full description. Les informations fournies dans la section � Synopsis � peuvent faire r�f�rence � une autre �dition de ce titre. This book traces the careers of these exceptional female pilots from all over the world, from the first woman to board a plane, to the accomplished pilots and astronauts of today. Includes biographies on both the well-known and unknown, this book focuses not only on the pilots themselves, but also on those who worked on the ground; engineers, heads of enterprise and nurses, to name a few. It features 50 illustrated biographies and over 400 photographs, all in a well-designed and attractive package. This inspiring book provides outstanding coverage of the history of female aviators. Biographie de l'auteur : Alain Pelletier is an aeronautical engineer by training, and has pursued a career as a French aviation historian and author. He has published numerous articles and around 20 books, both in France and abroad, on French and American aircraft and the history of aviation technology. He is the author of Boeing: The Complete Story , also published by Haynes. Les informations fournies dans la section � A propos du livre � peuvent faire r�f�rence � une autre �dition de ce titre. ISBN 13: 9780857332578. High-Flying Women: A World History of Female Pilots. Pelletier, Alain. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. This book traces the careers of these exceptional female pilots from all over the world, from the first woman to board a plane, to the accomplished pilots and astronauts of today. Includes biographies on both the well-known and unknown, this book focuses not only on the pilots themselves, but also on those who worked on the ground; engineers, heads of enterprise and nurses, to name a few. It features 50 illustrated biographies and over 400 photographs, all in a well-designed and attractive package. This inspiring book provides outstanding coverage of the history of female aviators. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Alain Pelletier is an aeronautical engineer by training, and has pursued a career as a French aviation historian and author. He has published numerous articles and around 20 books, both in France and abroad, on French and American aircraft and the history of aviation technology. He is the author of Boeing: The Complete Story , also published by Haynes. Gender and the sea. This blog looks at maritime history from a different perspective. A ship is not just a ship. The sea is not just the sea. Using a cultural studies approach, this blog explores the impact of women, LGBT+ people, working-class people and people from a range of ethnic backgrounds, on the sea and shipping. And it questions the ways that the sea and ships in turn affect such people's lives and mobility. Sunday, 6 July 2014. Reading about women seafarers. This is a select list of books and articles on women seafarers and women at the sea’s interface. Intended mainly for non-academics, it's to share, a resource from which many can benefit. I hope people will send me additions to it. It would be good to include publications from countries other than the UK, particularly Scandinavia, China, and Asian and African countries. 1. WOMEN SEAFARERS INTERNATIONALLY. International Phillip Belcher, Helen Sampson, Michelle Thomas et al, Women Seafarers: Global employment policies and practices , International Labor Office, Geneva, 2003. David Cordingly, Heroines and harlots: women at sea in the great age of sail , Macmillan, London, 2001. Margaret S Creighton and Lisa Norling, Eds, Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920 , Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore and London, 1996. Linda Grant De Pauw, Seafaring Women , Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1982. Diane Dugaw, Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850 , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. Joan Druett, She Captains: Heroines and hellions of the sea , Simon and Schuster, New York, 1999. Leon Fink, Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant seamen in the world's first globalized industry, from 1812 to the Present , University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2011. Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard, Women Under Sail: Letters and journals concerning eight women travelling or working in sailing vessels between 1829 and 1949 , David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1970. Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen and ​David Kirby, The Baltic and the North Sea, (three chapters on maritime women, Routledge, Abingdon, 2013. Colin Howell and Richard J Twomey, Eds, Jack Tar in History: Essays in the history of maritime life and labour , (four chapters on gender) Acadiensis Press, New Brunswick, 1991. Celia Mather, Sweatships: What it’s really like to work on board cruise ships , War on Want, London. Jo Stanley, Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates across the Ages , Ed, Pandora, London, 1995. Minghua Zhao, Seafarers on Cruise Ships: Emotional Labour in a Globalised Labour Market , Seafarers’ International Research Centre, Cardiff University, 2002. US & Canada Charlene Atkinson, Sue Ellen Jacobs and Mary A Porter, Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing , University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1989. Lesley Leyland Fields, T he Entangling Net: Alaska’s Commercial Fishing Women Tell their Stories , University of Illinois, Urbana and Chicago , 1997 Lucy Gwin, Going Overboard: The onliest little woman in the offshore oilfields , Viking Press, New York, 1982. Vickie Jensen, Saltwater Women at Work , Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 1995. Jeanne Marie Lutz, Changing Course: One woman's true-life adventures as a merchant marine , New Horizon Press, Far Hills, New Jersey, 2003. Sari Mäenpää, ‘Shipping Out: “The Story of America's Seafaring Women”’, International Journal of Maritime History , Vol 19,no 2, 2007, p472. Nancy Taylor Robson, Woman in the Wheelhouse , Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Maryland, 1985. Cristina Vignone, 'Women Workers and Gender Equality on the Ocean Liner,' Crossing on the SS Normandie , http://www.fordham.edu/normandie/people. The Antipodes Patsy Adam-Smith, There was a Ship: The story of her years at sea , Penguin, Ringwood, Australia, 1995. Sally Fodie, Waitemata Ferry Tales , Ferry Boat Publishers, Auckland, 1995. Dee Pignéguy, Saltwater in Her Hair: Stories of women in the New Zealand maritime industry , VIP publications, Auckland, 2001. Scandinavia Olive J Roeckner, Deep Sea ‘Sparks’: A Canadian Girl in the Norwegian Merchant Navy , Cordillera, Vancouver, 1993. Mira Karjalainen, I n the Shadow of Freedom: Life on board the oil tanker , The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Helsinki, 2007. The Soviet Union Jo Stanley, Soviet women Commanding Ships , 4 July 2014, http://genderedseas.blogspot.co.uk. The UK Linda Collison, - Surgeon’s Mate ,(The Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series of novels), Fireship Press, Tucson, AZ 2010. - Barbados Bound , Fireship Press, 2012, Tucson, AZ . Crabb, Brian James, Beyond the Call of Duty: The loss of British Commonwealth mercantile and service women at sea during the second world war , Shaun Tyas, Donington, 2006. Cherry Drummond, The Remarkable Life of Victoria Drummond , The Institute of Marine Engineers, London, 1999. Violet Jessop, Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess , John Maxtone-Graham, Ed, Sutton, Stroud, 1998. Mary Lacy, Mary Lacy ‘The Female Shipwright ’, Margarette Lincoln (intro), Caird Library Reprints, National Maritime Museum, London, 2008. Sari Mäenpää, -'Women below Deck: Gender and Employment on British Passenger Liners, 1860-1938', The Journal of Transport History , Vol 25, no 2, 2004, pp57-74. - ‘Comfort and guidance for female passengers: The origins of women's employment on British Passenger Liners 1850–1914’, Journal for Maritime Research , Vol 6, no 1, pp145-64. Jo Stanley, - Women at Sea: Canadian Pacific Stewardesses in the 1930s , self-published, Liverpool, 1987. - ‘The company of women: stewardesses on liners, 1919-1938’, The Northern Mariner/ Le Marin du Nord , Vol 9, no2, 1999, pp69-86. - ‘Black Women on British Ships’, The Black and Asian Studies Newsletter , no 28, pp10-13, 2000. - ‘Co-venturing consumers “travel back”: Ships’ stewardesses and their female passengers, 1919-1955’, Mobilities , Vol 3, no 3, 2008, pp437-54. - ‘Caring for the poor souls: inter-war seafaring women and their pity for passengers,’ Gendered Journeys, Mobile Emotions , Gayle Letherby and Gillian Reynolds, Eds, Ashgate, London, 2009, pp121-32. - ‘We were skivvies / We had a ball: Shame and interwar stewardesses,’ Oral History , Vol 38 (Emotions issue), no 2, 2010, pp64-74. Suzanne J Stark, Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail , Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1996. Michelle Thomas, ‘"Get yourself a proper job girlie!" Recruitment, retention and women seafarers’, Maritime Policy & Management , Vol 31, no 4, 2004, pp309-18. Caroline Walker, David Peart, and Alan Gleaves, ‘Problems in the construction of gender and professional identities for women in a United Kingdom merchant navy training school,’ Research in Post-Compulsory Education , Vol 8, no 3, 2003, pp285-304. Women at sea as part of the UK royal navy services. Vera Laughton-Mathews, Blue Tapestry , Hollis & Carter, London, 1949. Marjorie H Fletcher, The WRNS: A History of the Women's Royal Naval Service , Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1989. Paddy Gregson, Ten Degrees Below Seaweed. A True Story Of World War II Boats' Crew Wrens , Merlin Books, Devon, 1993. Kathleen Harland, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service , Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service, London, 1990. Theses Sari Mäenpää, Catering personnel on British passenger liners, 1860-1935 , PH.D, Liverpool University, 2002. Jo Stanley, “Wanted: Adventurous Girls”: Stewardesses on liners 1919-1939 , PH.D. Lancaster University. 2.WEBSITES www.womensmaritimeassoc.com (US Women's Maritime Association) www.womensmaritimeassoc.com (Women's Maritime Association, New Zealand) http://www.itfglobal.org/women/ (International Transport Workers’ Federation, women's section) http://www. genderedseas. blospsot.com (Gender, sex and the sea) www.wista.net WISTA (Women's International Shipping & Trading Association)/ http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/people-and-places/womens-history/maritime-women/ English Heritage, history of maritime women) http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/maritimewomenhistory.htm (Women in Maritime History, San Francisco Maritime Museum) 3.GENDERED TRANSPORT AND MOBILITIES Donna Bridges, Jane Neal-Smith and Albert J Mills, Eds, Absent Aviators: Gender Issues in Aviation , Ashgate, London, 2014 Lucy Delap, -'Thus Does Man Prove His Fitness to Be the Master of Things': Shipwrecks, Chivalry and Masculinities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Britain, Cultural and Social History , Vol 3, no 1, 2006, pp45-74. -‘The Woman’s Dreadnought: Maritime symbolism in Edwardian gender politics,’ The Dreadnought and the Edwardian Ag e, Andrew D Lambert et al,Eds, Ashgate Publishing, Abingdon, 2011, pp95-108. Priyanthi Fernando and Gina Porter, Eds, Balancing the Load: Women, Gender and transport , Zed Press, London, 2002. Margaret Grieco, Laurie Pickup and Richard Whipp, Eds, Gender, Transport and Employment: Impact of Travel Constraints (Oxford Studies in Transport), Avebury, Aldershot, 1989 Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Managed Heart: Commercialization of human feeling , University of Press, Berkeley, 1983. Robin Law, ‘Beyond “women and transport”: towards new geographies of gender and daily mobility, Progress in Human Geography , Vol 23, no 4, 1999, pp567-588. Eileen F Lebow, Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation , Brassey's Washington DC, 2002. Gayle Letherby and Gillian Reynolds, Eds, Gendered Journeys, Mobile Emotions , Ashgate, London, 2009 Rosa Matheson, Women and the Great Western Railway , History Press, Stroud, 2007. Liz Millward, Women in British Imperial Airspace: 1922-1937 , McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2008. Alain Pelletier, High-Flying Women: A World History of Female Pilots , Haynes & Co, Sparkford, 2012 Nancy Pagh, At Home Afloat: Women on the Waters of the Pacific Northwest , University of Calgary Press, Calgary and University of Idaho Press, Moscow, Idaho, 2001. Virginia Scharff, Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age , University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1999. M Thea Sinclair, Ed, Gender, Work and Tourism , Routledge, London, 1997. Jo Stanley, - ‘The Swashbuckler, the Landlubbing Wimp, and the Woman in between: Myself as Pirate(ss)’ in Women’s Lives into Print: The Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography , Pauline Polkey, Ed, Macmillan, London, 1999, pp216-28. - ‘And After the Cross-Dressed Cabin Boys and Whaling Wives? Possible Futures for Women’s Maritime Historiography,’ Journal of Transport History , Vol 23, no 1, 2002, pp9-22. - ‘Putting Gender into Seafaring’, in Hilda Kean, Paul Martin and Sally J Morgan, Eds, Seeing History: Public History in Britain Now , Francis Boutle, London, pp81-104, 2000. Marian Swerdlow, Underground Woman: My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor (Labor & Social Change) , Temple University Press, 1998. Chuchu Vivian, Entering a man's world; Women bus drivers in South Africa , LAP Lambert Academic Publishing , 2012. Margaret Walsh, Ed, Journal of Transport History , Vol 23, no 1, 2002 (special issue on women). Drew Whitelegg, ‘Places and Spaces I've Been: Geographies of female flight attendants in the United States’, Gender, Place & Culture , Vol 12, no 2, 2005, pp251-266 Giles Whittell, Spitfire Women of World War II , Harper Perennial, New York, 2008. Helena Wojtczak, Railwaywomen: Exploitation, betrayal and triumph in the workplace , Hastings Press, Sussex, 2005. 4.WOMEN AT THE SEA’S INTERFACE Pat Ayers, ‘The Hidden Economy of Dockland Families: Liverpool in the 1930s’, Pat Hudson and W Robert Lee, Women’s Work and the Family Economy , Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp 271-90, 1990. Jan Brøgger, Nazare: Women and men in a pre-bureaucratic Portuguese fishing village , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, Boston, 1992. Douglas Catterall and Jodi Campbell, Women in Port: Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800 , Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston and Tokyo, 2012. Sally Cooper Cole, Women of the Praia: Work and lives in a Portuguese coastal community , Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1991 Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaports and Social Change, 1630-1800 , Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1998. Helen Doe, Enterprising women and shipping in the nineteenth century , Boydell Press, Rochester, New York and Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2009. Hanna Hagmark-Cooper, To Be a Sailor's Wife , Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2012. Margarette Lincoln, Naval Wives and Mistresses, 1750-1815 , National Maritime Museum, London, 2007. Sena Jeta Naslund, Ahab’s Wife (a novel) Morrow/Perennial, New York, 1999 Lisa Norling, Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women & the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 , University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2000. Michelle Thomas, Lost at Home and Lost at Sea: The predicament of seafaring families , Seafarers International Research Centre, Cardiff, 2003. Henry Trotter, Sugar Girls & Seamen: A journey into the world of dockside prostitution in South Africa , Jacana Media, South Africa, 2008. A NOTE Several slightly less relevant categories are excluded: women recreational sailors. (in section 1) seagoing wives of masters (as they are not, quite, employees. Only in exceptional cases are novels included; this means some of the fabricated 'autobiographies' of cross-dressed women sailors such as Hannah Snell and Lucy Brewer aren't here. Maybe they should be. High-Flying Women: A World History of Female Pilots by Alain Pelletier. New - a copy sourced new from the original publishers. Mint - a new condition book although not sourced from the publishers. Fine - clean and sound without major blemishes and only light indications of being previously owned. Very Good – a presentable copy with indications of previous ownership; faults could include minor inscriptions, cover rubbed or bumped, browning or dusty pages, small tears or wear on the dust jacket. Good – with clear signs of previous ownership and having a number of faults such as marked pages, covers or spine rubbed, wear or tears to dust jacket, labels or inscriptions. Working Copy – the major part, if not all, of the text will be complete but book will have significant faults such as major wear or large portions of the dust jacket missing. Illustrations may also be missing. For more information, please go to the "Book Conditions Explained" page in the "Buying From Us" section. . Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes (July 22, 1901 – March 30, 1975) was a pioneer aviator, the founder of the first movie stunt pilots' union. In 1930, she broke Amelia Earhart's air speed record. [2] Barnes raced in the Women's Air Derby and was a member of the Ninety-Nines. In later years, she was known as the owner of the Happy Bottom Riding Club, a bar and restaurant in the , Southern California, catering to the test pilots and aviators who worked nearby. [2] Contents. Early years. She was born as Florence Leontine Lowe on July 22, 1901, to Thaddeus Lowe II (1870–1955) and his first wife, Florence May Dobbins, in Pasadena, California. She was born to a wealthy family, growing up in a huge mansion in San Marino, California. During her formative years, she attended the area's finest private schools. Her father, an avid sportsman, encouraged her to appreciate the great outdoors and Florence became an accomplished equestrian. [3] Her grandfather was Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, who had pioneered American aviation with the establishment of the nation's first military air unit, the Army of the Potomac's balloon corps during the American Civil War. He took his granddaughter to an air show when she was only 10 years old. [4] In 1919, Florence married Reverend C. Rankin Barnes of South Pasadena, California, and they had a son, William E. Barnes. [3] Her mother died in 1924. Aviation career. Having spent four months abroad in Mexico, getting caught up with revolutionaries and escaping the attention of authorities, disguised as a man, she began to use the nickname "Pancho" about this time. [5] Barnes returned to San Marino, California, with an inheritance bequeathed her on her parents' death. In 1928, while driving her cousin Dean Banks to flying lessons, she decided to learn to fly, and convinced her cousin's flight instructor, Ben Caitlin, a World War I veteran, of her desire that same day. [5] She soloed after six hours of formal instruction. [3] Barnes ran an ad-hoc barnstorming show and competed in air races. Despite a crash in the 1929 Women's Air Derby, she returned in 1930 under the sponsorship of the Union Oil Company to win the race – and break Amelia Earhart's world women's speed record with a speed of 196.19 mph (315.7 km/h). Barnes broke this record in a Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship. [3] [6] After her contract with Union Oil expired, Barnes moved to Hollywood to work as a stunt pilot for movies. In 1931, she started the Associated Motion Picture Pilots, a union of film industry stunt fliers which promoted flying safety and standardized pay for aerial stunt work. She flew in several air-adventure movies of the 1930s, including Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930). [7] Barnes had extensive connections in Hollywood. Her early close friend George Hurrell (1904–1992), then eking out a living as a painter and photographer in Laguna Beach, California, would later become the legendary head of the portrait department of MGM Studios. Barnes is credited with helping Hurrell start his career in Hollywood after he took the photo she was to use on her pilot's license, introducing him to her Hollywood friends. [N 1] [8] [9] In a short period of time, Hurrell became the most in-demand photographer in Hollywood. [N 2] Barnes lost most of her money in the Great Depression. By 1935, she had only her apartment in Hollywood left. She sold it, and in March 1935 bought 180 acres (73 ha) of land in the Mojave Desert, near the Rogers dry lake bed and the nascent Muroc Field, then called March Field because it was an adjunct property of March Army Air Base at that time. [3] The Happy Bottom Riding Club. On her land, Pancho Barnes built the Happy Bottom Riding Club, also known as the Rancho Oro Verde Fly-Inn Dude Ranch, a dude ranch and restaurant which catered to airmen at the nearby airfield and her friends from Hollywood. Pancho became very close friends with many of the early test pilots, including , General Jimmy Doolittle, and Buzz Aldrin. Pancho's ranch became famous for the parties and high-flying lifestyle of all the guests. [10] After successful flight trials, the Muroc and Edwards test pilots often enjoyed some good times at the Happy Bottom Riding Club. As proprietor, Barnes would offer them a customary free steak [11] dinner for breaking the sound barrier. [12] A change of command in 1952, however, contributed to Barnes getting into a conflict with the United States Air Force. The Air Force was planning for the future of aviation, and decided it needed to build a new, super-long runway to accommodate new aircraft that were being planned to run on atomic power. That new runway would run directly across her ranch. The Air Force originally offered her a price for her ranch, land, and facilities that was very close to the cost of undeveloped desert land. She requested a fair appraisal to better reflect the actual cost of replacement of her land and business, but in the midst of getting a re-appraisal, the base leadership accused her of running a house of ill-repute on her ranch. The effect of even the hint of impropriety resulted in her ranch and business being put off-limits to military personnel, and the value of her business plummeted. [1] Barnes then filed a lawsuit against the Air Force to, as she put it, "Roust out the scoundrels in the government who would perpetrate such an injustice." She knew that if she filed a lawsuit, she would have the opportunity to depose under oath the various leaders and personnel on base, and the truth would come out and clear her name. During the height of the intense court battle, in 1953, her ranch burned in a fire of mysterious origin. After the fire, the value of her ranch and business further plummeted to a level more closely reflecting the original buy-out offer from the Air Force. Nonetheless, the court battle continued. Barnes was determined to receive fair value for her land and business, and to clear her name. A main contention of her defense was: "My grandfather founded the United States Air Force." On that argument, the court found in her favor and she was awarded $375,000 remuneration for her property and business. Also, her name was cleared. As it turned out, the proposed runway was never built. [1] After the government bought her out, she moved to Cantil, California, in hopes of restarting a similar dude ranch business there. It never happened. It was not until the late 1960s that Pancho once again became a commonplace figure at the base and began to be referred to as the "Mother of Edwards AFB." The wounds began to heal as Pancho reconnected with many old-timers. The officer's mess at Edwards was renamed the Pancho Barnes Room. [1] Death. Barnes suffered from breast cancer, likely the ultimate cause of her death. She was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the Aero Museum's annual "Barnstormers Reunion" on April 5, 1975. However, when a friend called on March 30, she could not reach her. Her son Bill found her dead in her home and the coroner determined that she had died several days earlier. [2] [3] Bill obtained special permission which was granted from the United States Air Force to spread her ashes over the site of the Happy Bottom Riding Club. He then flew an aircraft over the site, but a crosswind came up sweeping the ashes back into the small Cessna aircraft, to be carried aloft again. "Even in death Barnes still loved a good joy ride." [1] Legacy. Her fourth husband, Eugene "Mac" McKendry, continued to live in Cantil and survived Barnes for many years. Son Bill Barnes died piloting a North American P-51 Mustang flying near Fox Field in Lancaster in October 1980. In 1940, she had founded Barnes Aviation of Lancaster which Bill operated in his adult years. It remains in the general aviation business today. [13] Her life and personality were portrayed in the 1983 epic film The Right Stuff adapted from 's bestselling book of the same name. Kim Stanley played her. She was also the subject of a heavily fictionalized 1988 TV movie written by John Michael Hayes and directed by Richard Heffron entitled Pancho Barnes , in which she was portrayed by Valerie Bertinelli. The first biography about Pancho was published in 1986, The Lady Who Tamed Pegasus: The Story of Pancho Barnes , written by Grover Ted Tate, who relied heavily upon the copyrighted autobiographical materials of Pancho Barnes. In 1996, a second biography appeared, Pancho: The Biography of Florence Lowe Barnes , written by Barbara Schultz. A third biography appeared in 2000, written by Lauren Kessler, The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes . PBS sponsored a documentary film, The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club , completed in 2009. In it, Kathy Bates provides the voice of Pancho Barnes. The documentary was made independently of the estate of Pancho Barnes. However, the estate gave the film makers full access to her personal papers and photographs as well as her copyrighted autobiography that are owned by the estate. The film, which chronicles Pancho's life story, was produced and written by Nick T. Spark and directed by Amanda Pope in affiliation with KOCE-TV, a PBS station in Orange County, California. The documentary won an Emmy for best arts and history documentary. [14] Pancho's Mystery Ship #32 was for a long time located in a hangar at Mojave Airport. It was sold to a private collector a number of years ago, and is currently in the United Kingdom, where it has been restored. [N 3] The Happy Bottom Riding Club historical site is the location for the annual USAF Test Pilot School/ Pancho Barnes Day celebration (established in 1980). A barbecue is held and drinks are served, along with dancing and live music to honor the remembrance of this aviation pioneer and friend. Family hour extends until approximately 2100 hrs, after which it is an adults only party, perhaps in remembrance of the raucous old days of Happy Bottom. [15]