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Jacqueline Cochran
Sign in to saveAlso known as Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran, Jacqueline Cochran Odlum
American aviator and businesswoman (1906–1980)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Final report on women pilot program
- Reminiscences
- The Stars at Noon (1st Edition)
- Jackie Cochran
- The stars at noon
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1938-10-03
- Active to
- 1960-04-17
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners
· 2019 · cited 21,723x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,996x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,801x
- Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
· 2021 · cited 9,947x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “One day, I got a call to come into General Arnold's office. He said, "What do you know about the B-26?" I said, "I don’t know a thing except the scuttlebutt that it’s a so-called hot airplane." The men were saying that they were willing to be killed in war, but they wouldn't fly the B-26. ... I flew the plane and didn't see any thing so difficult about it. I came back and said to General Arnold, "I can cure your men of walking off the program. Let's put on the girls."”
- “Earthbound souls know only the underside of the atmosphere in which they live. But go up higher — above the dust and water vapor — and the sky turns dark until one can see the stars at noon.”
- “To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1906-05-11 ) May 11, 1906, Pensacola, Florida , U.S.
- Died
- August 9, 1980 (1980-08-09) (aged 74), Indio, California , U.S.
- Occupations
- Aviator, test pilot, spokesperson, and businessperson
- Political party
- Republican
- Spouse s
- Robert Cochran, Floyd Bostwick Odlum
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- Women Airforce Service Pilots , Air Force Reserve Command
- Service years
- 1942–1970
- Rank
- Colonel
- Awards
- Distinguished Service Medal , Distinguished Flying Cross
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Jacqueline Cochran (born Bessie Lee Pittman; May 11, 1906 – August 9, 1980) was an American pilot and business executive. She pioneered women's aviation and was the first woman to break the sound barrier on 18 May 1953. Cochran (along with Nancy Love) was the wartime head of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (1943–1944), which employed about 1,000 civilian American women in a non-combat role to ferry planes from factories to port cities. Later on, Cochran was initially a sponsor of the Mercury 13 women astronaut program, before testifying against it in a congressional subcommittee.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jacqueline Cochran” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.