biography
| name: |
Cochran, Jacqueline
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pronunciation:
[kokran]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1910–80)
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| biography:
| Aviator, born in Pensacola, Florida, USA. She received her pilot's licence in 1932, became the first woman to fly in the Bendix transcontinental air race in 1935, and in 1938 secured the transcontinental record. The International League of Aviators named her the world's outstanding woman pilot (1937–50, 1953). She became director of Women Auxiliary Service Pilots in the US air force in 1943. In 1953 she became the first woman to fly faster than sound (in an F-86 Sabre fighter), and in 1964 flew faster than twice the speed of sound. |
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