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| | Women Airforce Service Pilots |
 | | Nancy Harkness Love, a well-known aviator of the 1930s, advocated a policy of using exceptionally well-qualified professional female pilots for ferrying aircraft, while Jackie Cochran, a world-renowned aviator, had a more ambitious project in mind--procuring and training a relatively large corps of women pilots for a variety of jobs besides ferrying. |
 | | Love proposed that 21- to 35-year-old women possessing a high school diploma, US citizenship, a commercial pilot's license, 500 hours of flying time, and a 200-horsepower rating be hired as military ferry pilots. |
 | | Cochran was named Director of Women Pilots, and Love continued in the WASP as executive of the Ferrying Division of the Air Transport Command. |
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