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4.0 out of 5 stars
A Swell Pioneer Aviation Book,
By beachey@ix.netcom.com (Encino, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tomboy of the Air: Daredevil Pilot Blanche Stuart Scott (Hardcover)
Ms. Cummins has produced a very attractive small volume on Blanche Stuart Scott, pioneer aviator. The volume is well designed, as might be expected from a mainline publisher (Harper Collins) and the text is informative. While the book yields a good notion of who Ms. Stuart Scott was, a better exposition of Ms. Stuart Scott's 'crustiness' would probably have increased our understanding. There are the inevitable errors, of course, including an unfortunate caption of a photograph (on page 49) mistakenly identifying Lincoln Beachey as the aviator of a Wright biplane. Also, there is confusion about the supposed role of a non-existent sand bag in the fatal fall of Harriet Quimby and William Willard at Squantum, Massachusetts, in 1911. Taken as a whole, however, this book is well worth the purchase price and adds to our knowledge of one of the most colorful aviators of the pre-WWI period.
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Tomboy of the Air: Daredevil Pilot Blanche Stuart Scott by Julie Cummins (Library Binding - July 1, 2001)
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