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Louise Thaden

Louise Thaden was a renowned woman pilot who came to prominence in the interwar years.

Louise Thaden

Thaden was winner of the 1929 transcontinental Women's Air Derby (the so-called "Powder Puff Derby"), one of the founders of the Ninety-Nines, and the first woman (with Blanche Noyes) to win the Bendix Trophy Race in 1936, flying from New York to Los Angeles in slightly less than fifteen hours.

Credit: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Photo Number: 82-2132

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Louise Thaden

Louise Thaden