The Daredevil Fly Girl Who Challenged Amelia Earhart

Aug 19 2018 by The Daily Beast

 
Courtesy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Ruth Nichols saw her chance—her chance to make history. It was late 1930 and her rivals were distracted. Record-setting pilot Louise Thaden had recently given birth in Pittsburgh to her first child, a son. Thaden would soon be taking the baby to the airfield with her, showing him the airplanes. But Thaden wasn’t making any daring flights anytime soon. And neither was Nichols’s other rival: Amelia Earhart. In late 1930, Earhart was...

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