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	The American Experience \| Fly Girls \| People & Events \| Jackie Cochran
		Cochran's earliest memories are of life with a foster family on what she called "Sawdust Road," but what was, in fact, a lumber mill town in northern Florida.
		Even though Cochran completed three years of training to be a nurse, she never quite adjusted to the profession.
		Cochran was soon thrilled at the success of her experiment.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/flygirls/peopleevents/pandeAMEX01.html (1257 words)

	The Story of Jacqueline Cochran
		Cochran was their president from 1941 to 1943.
		Access to jet aircraft was mainly restricted to military personnel; but, Cochran, with the assistance of her friend (then) Captain Chuck Yeager, became the first woman to break the sound barrier in an F-86 Sabre Jet in 1953, and went on to set a world speed record of 1,429 mph in 1964.
		In 1934, she founded Jacqueline Cochran Cosmetics, a highly successful company and was designated Woman of the Year in Business by an Associated Press Poll of newspaper editors in 1963.
	www.womenscalendar.org /JackieCochran.htm (611 words)

	Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport - About Jacquline Cochran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jacqueline Cochran was one of the most prominent aviators of the 20th Century, and is likely the most important aviator in the County's history.
		Cochran earned her pilots license in 1932, and by 1934 was already participating in international air races.
		Cochran was enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame in 1971.
	www.jacquelinecochranregionalairport.com /about.asp (190 words)

	Motorsports Hall of Fame
		Jacqueline Cochran was born near Muscogee, Florida on an undetermined date sometime between 1906 and 1910 and was orphaned by the age of four.
		In 1962, Jacqueline Cochran set sixty-nine intercity and straight line distance records for Lockheed in one of their Jet Stars and became the first woman to fly a jet aircraft across the Atlantic.
		Among Jacqueline Cochran's decorations and honors were the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Force Legion of Merit, and an enshrinement in the Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio, in 1971, the first woman to have been so honored.
	www.mshf.com /hof/cochran_jacqueline.htm (556 words)

	Jacqueline Cochran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran was a leading aviatrix who promoted an independent Air Force and was the director of women's flying training for the Women's Airforce Service Pilots program during World War II.
		Cochran was soon recruiting women pilots to ferry planes for the British Ferry Command, and became the first female trans-Atlantic bomber pilot.
		Access to jet aircraft was mainly restricted to military personnel, but Cochran, with the assistance of her friend Gen. Chuck Yeager, became the first woman to break the sound barrier in an F-86 Sabre Jet owned by the company in 1953, and went on to set a world speed record of 1,429 mph in 1964.
	www.af.mil /news/story.asp?storyID=123006481 (914 words)

	Amelia Earhart
		Jacqueline Cochran was born to a childhood of poverty in the South, but with courage, intelligence and determination she established a highly successful cosmetics business and became one of the most prolific record setters in aviation history.
		In 1937, Jacqueline Cochran received the General Billy Mitchell award for her contribution to the progress of aviation in the United states.
		Jacqueline Cochran went on during World War II to become a special consultant to the Army Air Force Chief of Staff.
	www.womeninaviation.com /jackie2.html (362 words)

	Bio--Jacqueline Cochran
		Jacqueline Cochran was born, date uncertain, near the sawdust roads, cotton fields and small sawmill town of DeFuniak Springs in West Florida.
		Young Jacqueline Cochran‘s first job was sweeping the floor and being a ’shampoo girl‘ in a beauty parlor, but the word ’can‘t’ was not in her vocabulary.
		Jacqueline Cochran went higher and faster into the frontiers of aviation than any woman before, breaking through the glass ceiling and the sound barrier--from rags to riches-blazing a trail for other heroic women to follow.
	www.wasp-wwii.org /wasp/bio_cochran.htm (920 words)

	Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran
		Cochran's early childhood is a bit of a mystery.
		Cochran had told Odlum of her dream of starting a cosmetics line and he suggested that she was going to "need wings" to cover the territory necessary to sustain a cosmetics business.
		Cochran also set a national air speed record from New York to Miami in 4 hours, 12 minutes, 27 seconds, and she achieved a new women's national speed record at 203.895 miles per hour (328 kilometers per hour).
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/cochran/EX25.htm (1555 words)

	Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran Odlum (c.1908*-1970), Pioneer Aviatrix
		Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran was born in 1910 in Pensacola, Florida.
		Cochran and the famous aviator, Amelia Earhart were denied their initial application to enter the race on the grounds that the race was for men only.
		On June 1, 1961, Jacqueline Cochran flying the Lockheed F-104G Starfighter, claimed her third jet speed record in less than a month when she flew the difficult Edwards 100 Kilometer circular course at 1,303.241 mph, bettering the existing women's record of 1,266 mph held by the well-known French Aviatrix Jacqueline Auriol.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/cochran.html (6794 words)

	First Flight Shrine: Jacqueline Cochran - The First Flight Society - The First Flight Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cochran learned to fly at age 22 in order to expand her cosmetics business.
		Cochran won several air records, including the women's west to east transcontinental speed record and altitude records.
		Cochran was appointed Director of Women Pilots when the organization was created in 1943.
	www.firstflight.org /shrine/jacqueline_cochran.cfm (266 words)

	Women in Aviation and Space History: Jacqueline Cochran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cochran then established her own cosmetics company and learned to fly at the suggestion of her future husband, millionaire Floyd Odlum.
		In 1942, Cochran, at the request of Army General Henry "Hap" Arnold, organized the Women’s Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) to train civilian women pilots in anticipation of a shortage of military pilots during the war.
		Cochran flew the Beech Staggerwing and Lockheed F-104, examples of which are displayed, respectively, in the Golden Age of Flight and outside the Planetarium.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/women_aviators/jackie_cochran.htm (378 words)

	Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
		At an early age Bessie left home and changed her name to “Jacqueline Cochran.” Although she renounced the Pittman name, and never publicly revealed the identity of her foster family, she remained in contact with her foster parents and later contributed to the support of their children and grandchildren.
		Cochran’s racing activities in the 1930s brought her a wide acquaintance among the famous pilots of the day.
		Cochran’s earlier proposals were resurrected and she was invited back to the U.S. to head a program for training women pilots.
	www.eisenhower.utexas.edu /dl/Jacqueline_Cochran/JackieCochran.html (1056 words)

	Aviationboom - Pioneers Jacqueline Cochran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jacqueline Cochran, born Bessie Lee Pittman was a pioneer American aviatrix.
		Jacqueline Cochran died on August 7, 1980 at her home in Indio, California.
		Nonetheless, she is deservedly a famous women in history as one of the greatest aviators ever, and a woman who frequently used her influence to advance the cause of women in aviation.
	www.aviationboom.com /pioneers/jacqueline_cochran.shtml (1233 words)

	Information about U.S. FDC: 50¢ Jacqueline Cochran: Aviation Pioneers Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jacqueline Cochran was a close friend of aviator Amelia Earhart and spoke at a meeting of the Women's National Aeronautical Association after Earhart's disappearance in 1937.
		Cochran praised Earhart, saying "Amelia...had merely placed the torch in the hands of others to carry on to the next goal." Indeed, no one would carry that torch higher, faster and farther than Jackie Cochran herself.
		When she founded Jacqueline Cochran Cosmetics, Inc., in 1935, her achievements in flight brought fame to her company, and made her the model for a new type of woman.
	www.unicover.com /EA1CAFRE.HTM (442 words)

	A Final Visit, and Then an Encore : Edwards Air Force Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Jacqueline Cochran had returned to the Flight Test Center in 1961, she blazed through the Edwards skies in a T-38 Talon to establish eight new world flight records.
		Cochran checked out in the high performance but very unforgiving airplane that Major General Fred Ascani once called "scary and fast." That accomplished, she brought a distinctive red-white-and-blue Starfighter to Edwards Air Force Base in the spring of 1963.
		Jackie Cochran interpreted this as a blatant affront.
	www.edwards.af.mil /moments/docs_html/63-05-01.html (631 words)

	Jacqueline Cochran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Emerging from a life of orphaned poverty, "Jackie" Cochran could barely read when she learned to fly in 1932, and arranged to take the written exams orally.
		In World War II she became the first woman to fly a bomber across the Atlantic and eventually organized the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) to train female pilots to ferry military aircraft around the world.
		In her lifetime Cochran earned the USAF Distinguished Flying Cross, the French Legion of Honor, and air medals from Belgium, Turkey, and Spain.
	www.hill.af.mil /museum/history/jackiecochran.htm (182 words)

	Jacqueline Auriol (1917-2000), Pioneer Aviatrix
		Her next interest was flying in jets, which involved quite different techniques, and in 1951, in one of the first Vampires, she broke Jacqueline Cochran's speed record, by achieving 507 miles per hour.
		She was the first European (and one of the rare aviatrixes) to break the sound barrier, on Aug 15, 1953, two months after the American Jacqueline Cochran.
		Jacqueline Auriol est malheureusement décédée le 11 Février 2000, à l'âge de 82 ans.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/auriol.html (1829 words)

	Jacqueline Cochran Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Jacqueline Cochran (1910-1980) rose from childhood poverty to become an aviation pioneer.
		She was the first woman to fly in the Bendix Trophy Transcontinental Race in 1935, winning it in 1938, and was the first woman to ferry a bomber across the Atlantic Ocean in support of the war effort in 1941.
		The achievements of Jacqueline Cochran would be remarkable for anyone but are even more spectacular considering her humble beginnings and the fact she chose to compete in an arena not readily open to women of her time.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/jacqueline-cochran (201 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1932, Cochran's husband suggested that she learn to fly as a way of using her time more efficiently.
		Test pilot Chuck Yeager took a personal interest in Cochran, and under his guidance she flew an F-86 Sabre jet in California, at an average speed of 652.337 miles per hour -- becoming the first woman to break the sound barrier.
		At the time of her death in 1980, Cochran held more speed, altitude, and distance records than any pilot, male or female, in the world.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/cochranstamp.htm (397 words)

	'+' (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-1.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jacqueline Cochran Odlum is a legend in aviation history.
		Jackie Cochran had been thinking of learning to fly for months, the seed was sown by Floyd, who told her that “If you’re going to cover the territory you need to cover to make money in this kind of economic climate, you’ll need wings.
		In Jacqueline Cochran’s own words she called the T-38 Talon “the greatest step forward in the history of pilot training”.
	members.lycos.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /derekhorne/cochran.html (2441 words)

	US Commemorative Cover Jacqueline Cochran with Information Card (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jacqueline Cochran was born in 1908 and she began her distinguished aviation career in 1931 when she received her pilot's license.
		In addition to setting air records, Jacqueline Cochran also served her country in time of war.
		This Commemorative Cover was issued on May 11, 1979, the birthday of Jacqueline Cochran, in Pensacola, Florida, her birthplace.
	www.unicover.com /EA8RGX3V.HTM (408 words)

	Jacqueline Cochran
		Because "Jackie" Cochran was orphaned at an early age, the exact date of her birth is unknown*.
		Jackie Cochran was not an orphan nor was she adopted.
		That is also where she met her first husband, Jack Cochran.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/cochran1.htm (1573 words)

	Jacqueline Cochran
		From barefoot girl stealing chickens to decorated pilot dining with kings, queens, presidents, pashas and premiers, Jacqueline Cochran was truly one-of-a-kind.
		She played poker with Jimmy Doolittle, was the first woman to enter Japan after World War II, witnessed General Yamashita's surrender in the Philippines and the trials at Nuremberg, and flew to England and convinced General Eisenhower to run for President (and she was a Democrat!)
		Jacqueline Cochran went higher and faster into the frontiers of aviation than any woman before, breaking through the glass ceiling and the sound barrier.
	www.wasp-wwii.org /wasp/jacqueline_cochran.htm (601 words)

	The Distinguished Flying Cross Society
		During this period, Colonel Cochran piloted an F-51 aircraft in which she established six world speed records.
		During that period, Colonel Cochran established a number of world records on a flight from New Orleans, LA to Bonn, Germany.
		Flyng a Lockheed Jet Star C-140 Colonel Cochran established 69 intercity, intercapital, and straight-line distance records and routes, in addition to becoming the first woman to fly a jet aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.dfcsociety.org /citation_detail.asp?ID=4127 (350 words)

	Jacqueline Cochran Biography \| scit_071_package.xml
		Born around 1910 in Pensacola, Florida (training base for American navy pilots), Cochran was orphaned early and reared in poverty by foster parents.
		During World War II she was a captain in the British Air Force Auxiliary and headed the women pilots who ferried aircraft all over Europe.
		When the United States entered the conflict, Cochran was made director of the Women's Air Force Service Pilots.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/jacqueline-cochran-scit-071 (124 words)

	Jacqueline Cochran — Infoplease.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-1.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A decorated pilot, Cochran, at the time of her death, held more aviation records than any other pilot—male or female—in history.
		On May 18, 1953 Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier, flying 625.5 miles per hour in an F-86 Sabre.
		Cochran heating up all systems for Cardin Man's Musk April launch.
	www.infoplease.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ipa/A0900716.html (378 words)

	Aeronautics - Jacqueline Cochran
		At eight she went to work in a cotton mill in Georgia: she later was trained as a beautician and pursued that career in Montgomery, Alabama, Pensacola, Florida, and New York City, New York.
		She took her first flying lesson in 1932 and soon mastered the technical aspects of aviation and navigation.
		In 1935, Miss Cochran became the first women to enter the Bendix Transcontinental Air Race.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aerojava/cochran.htm (387 words)

	Jacqueline Cochran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Efforts of air racer Jacqueline Cochran to introduce a women's flying division in the Army; Qualifications for women applying under the program; Opportunities for women enrolled in program.
		Jacqueline Cochran Founder and Director of the WASP
		Cochran, Jacqueline and Odlum, Floyd B. The Stars at Noon.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/school/ots/cochran.htm (694 words)

	Location & Amenities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport is located in Riverside County's Coachella Valley—known as the Desert Resorts Region.
		Private country club communities such as The Vintage, The Quarry, Eldorado, Santa Rosa Cove, and Mission Hills are within minutes of Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport.
	www.rivcoeda.org /Default.aspx?tabid=530 (186 words)

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