From Birdwomen to Skygirls by Erisman Fred;

Author:Erisman, Fred;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, “Lindbergh Calls for Airways to Link Capitals of Continent,” New York Times, 16 December 1927, 2; Amelia Earhart, “Try Flying Yourself,” Cosmopolitan 85 (November 1928): 35; Amelia Earhart, “Your Next Garage may house an Autogiro,” Cosmopolitan 91 (August 1931): 58; Alexander Klemin, “An Airplane in Every Garage?”, Scribner’s Magazine 98 (September 1935): 182. See also Joseph J. Corn, The Winged Gospel: America’s Romance with Aviation, 1900–1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), 91-111.

2. “200 Plane Experts to Hold a Parley,” New York Times, 23 May 1934, 10; “10,000 ‘Baby Planes’ At $700 Proposed,” New York Times, 9 November 1933, 23; Reginald M. Cleveland, “Interest in Tiny Planes,” New York Times, 8 December 1935, XX9. For the Ercoupe, see “Erco 415-C Ercoupe,” http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/erco415.htm (accessed 13 November 2007).

3. Edith Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Perilous Summer (New York: A.L. Burt, 1932), 54.

4. Edith Lavell, Linda Carlton, Air Pilot (Akron, OH: Saalfield, 1931), 8, 86; Edith Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Ocean Flight (Akron, OH: Saalfield, 1931), 208-259; Edith Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Perilous Summer, 28. See also Bruce Gould, “Girls Have Wings, Too! How Elinor Smith, 17, Set an Endurance Record,” St. Nicholas 56 (June 1929): 631, 674; Helena Huntington Smith, “New Woman” [Elinor Smith], New Yorker 6 (10 May 1930): 28-31; “This Month’s Cover” [Laura Ingalls], U.S. Air Services 19 (June 1934): 32-33; Clair Price, “Amy Johnson Wings Her Way to Fame,” New York Times Magazine, 1 June 1930, 4, 19.

5. Arrow Aircraft & Motors Corporation. Common Stock Notification. New York Times, 15 April 1929, 43; “Arrow Sport A2-60,” http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/arrowsport.htm (accessed 13 November 2007); Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Ocean Flight, 138.

6. Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Ocean Flight, 201-202; Alan Abel and Drina Welch Abel, Bellanca’s Golden Age, Golden Age of Aviation Series 4 (Brawley, CA: Wind Canyon Books, 2004), 28-32, 42, 55-56.

7. Juan de la Cierva, “A New Way to Fly,” Saturday Evening Post 202 (2 November 1929): 20-21; “Autogiro is Hailed as Family Machine,” New York Times, 6 June 1931, 14; Earhart, “Your Next Garage May House an Autogiro,” 58; Earle Ovington, “The Airplane and Autogiro Compared,” Popular Aviation 9 (November 1931): 36; Brigadier-General William Mitchell, “The Automobile of the Air,” Woman’s Home Companion 59 (May 1932): 18-19, 126. See also Peter W. Brooks, Cierva Autogiros: The Development of Rotary-Wing Flight (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988).

8. Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Ocean Flight, 214; Edith Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Island Adventure (Akron, OH: Saalfield, 1931), 19, 25; Edith Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Hollywood Flight (New York: A.L. Burt, 1933), 31-34.

9. Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Island Adventure, 121; Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Perilous Summer, 73.

10. Lavell, Linda Carlton, Air Pilot, 83, 144.

11. Ibid., 22, 58; Edith Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Hollywood Flight, 37, 249.

12. Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Ocean Flight, 249, 259; Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Island Adventure, 13-14.

13. Lavell, Linda Carlton’s Hollywood Flight, 220. Ellipsis in the original.

14. Corn, Winged Gospel, 111; Julietta A. Arthur, “Airways to Earning,” Independent Woman 19 (February 1940), 34-35.

15. “Books for Girls” [back dust jacket advertisement], Bess Moyer, The Girl Flyers on Adventure Island (New

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