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	Louise McPhetridge Thaden (1905â“1979) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
		Louise McPhetridge Thaden was an aviation pioneer and holder of numerous flight records during the late 1920s and 1930s.
		Louise McPhetridge was born in Bentonville (Benton County) on November 12, 1905, to Roy McPhetridge, a travelling Mentholatum salesman who taught Louise to hunt, fish, and fix a car, and Edna McPhetridge, a housewife.
		Thaden retired from competition in 1938 to spend more time with her two children, Bill and Pat, and write her memoirs, High, Wide and Frightened, detailing the years from 1927 to 1937.
	www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net /encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=30 (840 words)

	ipedia.com: Louise Thaden Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Louise McPhetridge was born in Bentonville, Arkansas and atte...
		Louise McPhetridge was born in Bentonville, Arkansas and attended Bentonville public schools.
		Thaden was a friend and rival of pioneer aviators Amelia Earhart, Pancho Barnes, and Blanche Noyes.
	fav.ipedia.com /louise_thaden.html (967 words)

	Women in Aviation: Biography of Louise McPhetridge Thaden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Louise McPhetridge Thaden was born on November 12, 1905 in Bentonville, Arkansas.
		Thaden and her co-pilot won the 1936 Bendix Cup race, which was the first year that women were allowed to compete.
		The Bentonville airport was named after Louise Thaden in 1951 and a national Staggerwing Museum was named after her in 1974.
	library.thinkquest.org /21229/bio/lthad.htm (458 words)

	NAHF
		Louise McPhetridge was born in Bentonville, Arkansas on November 12th, 1905.
		Thaden served as the group's vice-president from 1931-32 and as treasurer from 1930 to 1934.
		Thaden was assigned the western part of the country and she found the work fascinating.
	nationalaviation.blade6.donet.com /components/content_manager_v02/view_nahf/htdocs/menu_ps.asp?NodeID=-411705939&group_ID=1134656385&Parent_ID=-1 (715 words)

	Fly Arkansas: Ezine for Aviators
		Louise Thaden braved flying cross-country during a time when landmarks and railroads took the place of GPS and instruments, leaving a lot of guess work and danger involved in navigating long distances.
		Louise took her senior year off from school to help her parents pay for her college tuition, but fate intervened and she met Walter Beech, head of the Travel Air Corp. in Wichita, who offered her a chance at her dream to soar and she never returned to the university.
		Thaden but according to the story his mother told, on January 1, 1930, Louise flew into the Ft. Smith Airport, which at the time was located just over the border in Mopet, Oklahoma, to see her friend ‘Sophie’ and her first child, Ira.
	www.gozarks.com /flyarkansas/articles/mymomsfriend.html (929 words)

	Louise Thaden (1905-1979), Pioneer Aviatrix
		Thaden was co-founder (with Amelia Earhart) of the Ninety-Nines organization of women pilots in 1931, serving as an officer for six years, and later was closely associated with the Civil Air Patrol and Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service (1959-61).
		Louise McPhetridge Thaden was born in Arkansas in 1905.
		Louise Thaden was one of America's most captivating aeronautical record-setters during the late 1920's and 1930's.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/thaden.html (2839 words)

	Firefly: Aviation Pioneers - Oceania
		Louise Thaden, the first secretary of the 99s, was one of Amelia's close friends.
		Louise Thaden was a natural pilot who was hired by Walter Beech to work for Travel Air as a sales person and demonstration pilot in Oakland, California.
		Thaden went on to win the first Transcontinental Women's Derby in 1929 and helped keep the Beechcraft Company financially afloat during the Great Depression by winning both the men's and the women's competition during the Bendix Race in 1936, along with her co-pilot, Blanche Noyes.
	www.fau.edu /solopoletopole/pio_oceania.htm (623 words)

	Golden Age Pg. 2
		Louise Thaden was born in Bentonville, Arkansas in 1905.
		In 1930 Thaden co-founded the Ninety Nines with fellow aviatrix Amelia Earhart.
		Louise Thaden first soloed in 1928 and obtained her pilots liscense in 1929.
	www.hangardays.com /page2f.htm (965 words)

	THE LIZ LIBRARY COLLECTIONS: Irene Stuber's Women of Achievement
		Louise Thaden said with disgust to her copilot as she tried to direct her plane to a distant corner of Mines Field in Los Angeles.
		In her autobiography Louise Thaden described some of the problems in the trans-continental race in a plane that only weighed 992 pounds, had one motor and could have fit (without wings) on any modern flatbed truck.
		Thaden's first taste of racing victory was in the 1929 Powder Puff Derby in which the women flew from sunup to sundown leaving California August 18, 1929, and ending in Cleveland, Ohio, site of the national air races eight days and 2,800 miles later.
	www.thelizlibrary.org /undelete/woa-spotlight/01-thaden.html (1795 words)

	Dictionary : Louise Thaden
		Louise McPhetridge Thaden was born on November 12, 1905, in Bentonville, Arkansas, daughter of Roy and Edna McPhetridge.
		In 1935, Thaden and three other female aviators toured the United States for the Bureau of Commerce, promoting the practice of airmarking (painting compass points and geographic references on rooftops and hillsides) as a navigation aid for pilots.
		The Bentonville, Arkansas, airport was renamed Louise Thaden Field in 1951.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Dictionary/Thaden/DI200.htm (329 words)

	Woman Pilot magazine \| Louise Thaden -- A Profile in Courage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Harmon Trophy winner, Louise Thaden, was one of the courageous aviators who helped create the "Golden Age of Aviation." The 1930s was an age when records were made and broken, sometimes within weeks.
		Thaden was determined to change the public’s perception of women pilots.
		Thaden was pessimistic when she spelled out the future for women pilots.
	www.womanpilot.com /past%20issue%20pages/2000%20issues/mar%20april%202000/thaden.htm (565 words)

	Bentonville / Bella Vista Chamber of Commerce
		Louise McPhetridge Thaden is known as the second most famous female pilot — right behind Amelia Earhart — from the 1920’s and 30’s.
		Thaden set world performance records and became the first woman to win several major flying events and awards.
		The Louise Thaden Women of the Year Award will be awarded at the 2006 NWA Business Women's Conference.
	www.bbvchamber.com /general.asp?id=255 (145 words)

	First Flight Shrine: Blanche Noyes & Louise Thaden - The First Flight Society - The First Flight Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Louise Thaden had already achieved fame by age 23.
		Thaden and Noyes gained flight experience working for the United States Bureau of Air Commerce establishing air route landmarks and providing related services essential to the development of U. commercial aviation.
		By 1936 they were expert pilots, but still caused astonishment with their Bendix win because it was in a biplane, whereas racers or twin-engine planes especially built for transcontinental flights were the favored machines.
	www.firstflight.org /shrine/noyes_thaden.cfm (228 words)

	Louise Thaden (1905-1979), Pioneer Aviatrix
		Louise Thaden had a pragmatic view of the dangerous life of an aviator.
		Without radio contact, Louise Thaden and her co-pilot Blanche Noyes had no way of knowing they had won the prestigious 1936 Bendix Trophy Race.
		Thaden held three international records, solo, endurance and altitude, no other woman pilot held all three at the same time.
	www.ctie.monash.edu /hargrave/thaden.html (2839 words)

	The 1929 Air Race
		Louise flew with her head down below the rim of the open cockpit, pulling up periodically to check her position against her road map, dead-reckoning it was called - kind of an unfortunate term.
		The terrain and the map didn't jibe, and Louise concentrated on matching the roads and towns she saw to the piece of paper clutched in her left hand.
		Louise flew the rest of the trip to California, and the entire race, with her face up close to that source of life-sustaining air.
	www.ninety-nines.org /1929airrace.html (2614 words)

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		At the beginning of the 1930s, Louise Thaden was employed as a public relations director of Pitts- burgh Aviation Industries and director of the wom- en's division of the Penn School of Aeronautics, while continuing her record-setting flights that had begun in the late 1920s.
		Thaden followed her endurance record with two speed records, one in July 1934 for a light plane speed record of 109.58 miles per hour over a 100- kilometer course in a 90-horsepower Porterfield, and an east-to-west speed record in August 1936 in a Beechcraft Staggerwing.
		When Louise Thaden was grounded before the birth of one of her children, she had these thoughts on her longing to be up in the air (Thaden, 1938:94-95).
	www.sil.si.edu /smithsoniancontributions/AirSpace/text/SSAS-0006.txt (21279 words)

	Louise Thaden at AllExperts
		Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden (November 12, 1905 – November 9, 1979) was an aviation pioneer, holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix Trophy.
		In 1936 she teamed up with Blanche Noyes as her co-pilot and won the Bendix Trophy Race in the first year women were allowed to compete against men.
		Thaden has been flying since 1927, has held the women's speed, altitude and endurance records, is the mother of a 6-year-old son.
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/lo/louise_thaden.htm (1218 words)

	University of Arkansas Press Listings
		Born in 1905 and raised in Arkansas, Louise Thaden attended the University of Arkansas from 1921 to 1925 before moving to California, where she earned her pilot’s certificate in 1927.
		Over the next several years, Thaden continued to set records and win awards until 1938 when she retired to spend more time with her family and write these memoirs.
		Louise Thaden was, by far, the most skilled and accomplished aviatrix of that era.
	www.uapress.com /titles/sp04/thaden_highwide.html (266 words)

	Rogers Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When Louise McPhetridge Thaden (1905-1979) was born in Bentonville, Arkansas, it had been only two years since the Wright Brothers recorded the world’s first flight.
		Throughout her life Louise Thaden was a humble woman who exhibited what author Gene Nora Jessen called “quiet excellence.” So it was appropriate that during the 1970s she began to receive many recognitions.
		Among her four grandchildren (Terry von Thaden, Tracy Thaden, Fred W. Frost III, and Nancy Frost), two share a connection to aviation; Terry is a certified pilot and a university research scientist and instructor in aviation human factors, while Fred works with American Airlines.
	www.rogersarkansas.com /museum/donationOfTheMonth/03-05.asp (1388 words)

	Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Louise Thaden, a close friend and competitor of Amelia Earhart, was the first woman to win the Bendix Trophy.
		Flying a Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing with her copilot Blanche Noyes, Thaden captured the 1936 Bendix race from New York to Los Angeles with a flight that took 14 hours and 55 minutes.
		By 1929 Thaden held the international women's endurance, altitude, and speed records simultaneously.
	www.hill.af.mil /museum/history/louisethaden.htm (111 words)

	History of American Women's Aviation Feats - 1929 Women's Air Race: Aviation History: Wings Over Kansas
		A side note: Louise Thaden upon delivery of her Travel Air and first flight to Dallas had experienced carbon monoxide poisoning.
		Thaden learned that she would be allowed to race not only the Travel Air to Cleveland, but she would be able to participate in the Cleveland Air Races in a new Mystery Ship.
		The final standings for the heavies were Louise Thaden, Gladys O'Donnell, Amelia Earhart, Blanche Noyes, Ruth Elder, Neva Paris, Mary Haizlip, Opal Kunz, Mary von Mach, and Vera Dawn Walker.
	www.wingsoverkansas.com /history/article.asp?id=226 (1334 words)

	"B. Noyes and L. Thaden Win the 1936 Bendix"
		During the 1936 Bendix race Louise Thaden and her co-pilot, Blanche Noyse, laid to rest any question of female pilots ability to take on the best male pilots and the demands of the races themselves.
		Louise and Blance toured the U.S. to celebrate their victory, and set a number of inter city records, Christine St Ong's SW has the same color scheme.
		In 1936, Louise and Blanche Noyes flew a C17R Staggerwing, c/n77, to victory in the Bendix Trophy Race, a cross country dash from New York to Los Angeles, with a total time of 14 hours, 55 minutes, and 1 second.
	www.oldbeacon.com /gallery/gallery4/gal4-1.htm (501 words)

	Web Class Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Born in 1905 and raised in Arkansas, Louise Thaden attended the University of Arkansas from 1921 to 1925 before moving to California, where she earned her pilot’s certificate in 1927.
		Over the next several years, Thaden continued to set records and win awards until 1938 when she retired to spend more time with her family and write these memoirs.
		Louise Thaden was, by far, the most skilled and accomplished aviatrix of that era.
	comp.uark.edu /~edow/uap/highwide.html (281 words)

	thaden.org - Louise M. Thaden and Herbert V. Thaden
		Louise M. Thaden with the 1936 Bendix Air Race trophy, and Herbert V. Thaden portrait.
		It was recovered by Bill Thaden and friends in 1988, and was donated to the Hiller Museum for restoration.
		Crash-landed on Mar 30, 1933, in Chitna AK (p: Nat Browne); recovered in 1986 by William V. Thaden, and donated to the Hiller Museum in San Carlos, CA.
	www.thaden.org (394 words)

	Louise M. Thaden Office & Library Building
		On June 14, 1974, during the Annual Convention, the first exhibit of the Museum was dedicated to Louis Thaden, a poineer aviatrix, and a member of the Staggerwing Club, who was instrumental in the idea of preserving all the memorabilia of the Staggerwing era.
		In 1936, Louise and Blanche Noyes flew a C17R Staggerwing, c/n77, to victory in the Bendix Trophy Race, a cross-country dash from New York to Los Angeles, with a total time of 14 hourse, 55 minutes, and 1 second.
		The Thaden Collection is displayed here, and consists of papers, photographs, awards and trophies, memorabilia and pesonal articles of Louise Thaden.
	www.staggerwing.com /exhibits/thaden_office.shtml (168 words)

	Women of Achievement
		Jocelyn Elders, Walter Bresette, Louise Thaden, and Amelia Earhart.
		The winner was little known Louise Thaden who in six years would become the first woman to win all comers national race, the prestigious Bendix Derby that drew the best men pilots of the world with their specially built planes.
		Louise Thaden was the first woman to hold the altitude record, endurance record, and speed record at the same time.
	www.thelizlibrary.org /undelete/woa/woa08-13.html (5194 words)

	Ozarks Monthly Magazine featuring Lake of the Ozarks link, Ozark fishing, wildlife, Ozark trends, Ozark issues and ...
		“High, Wide, and Frightened” is Thaden’s personal account of her flying career, from the days she hung around the Beech Airplane factory in Wichita hoping to scrounge a ride, through her years in the spotlight, raising a family, and finally riding with her commercial pilot son.
		And while there’s not as much drama in Thaden’s writing as a reader might want, there’s not much question, either, of the excitement, exhilaration, and sheer joy she found in being at the control of a plane.
		Thaden died in 1979 at the age of 74.
	www.ozarksmonthly.com /lore/bookreviews/highwidefrightened.htm (255 words)

	Southern History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Louise McPhetridge was born in Bentonville, Arkansas on November 12, 1905.
		During the eight days, Thaden made seventy-eight air-to-air refueling contacts, and sometimes made live radio broadcasts to a national listening audience.Thaden then returned to the commercial side of aviation, serving as factory representative and demonstration pilot for Beech Aircraft Corporation.
		Thaden was assigned the western part of the country and she found the work fascinating.In 1936, Thaden took up her own private career again.
	www.southernhistory.net /print.php?sid=7179&POSTNUKESID=882c86a401027649844c7e1242c0afac (526 words)

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