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Passion, The Chicago Airport System, the Federal Aviation Administration, and Women in Aviation, International invite you to share in the passions, challenges and journeys of these women. As Gothe states, "Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it - boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Amelia Earhart's words still encourage us - "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things, knows not the livid loneliness of fear." Fear is an emotion, a feeling of danger - it is not a reason to quit. Mary Myers, Aida de Costa, Harriet Quimby, Katherine Cheung, Bobbi Trout, Amelia Earhart, Beryl Markham, Amy Johnson, Jacqueline Cochran, Ann Baumgartner, the "Night Witches," Bonnie Tiburzi, the women featured here and so many others, had the mettle to excel. Strength comes from within to support us on our journey. Janet Harmon compared herself to a bumblebee - "an insect who on paper is aerodynamically incapable of flying, but in reality flies merrily along." Society may have placed limitations on women but like the bumblebee, they never let it stop them from completing their course to the stars.
To learn more about these dynamic women, visit your local library. Women in Aviation, International's website, www.wiai.org, also provides information and links to other sites, to revel in the stories about those that reach for the stars. The Heroines in Aviation exhibit was created by the Chicago Airport System, Federal Aviation Administration, Great Lakes Region, and Women in Aviation, International. Karen McArdle, Director, Women in Aviation, International, curated and wrote the exhibit and Sandy Kowerko, Department of Aviation, Directed its design. The twelve women included in this exhibit have built successful careers while breaking new ground in traditional areas of aviation.
To go to ribbon cutting ceremony of permanent exhibit at Fenger Academy in Chicago, Click here. Photographs were compiled from personal collections and from NASA. Photographs of Ellen Paneok and Mayte Greco are from Women and Flight: Portraits of Contemporary Women Pilots, a book by photographer Carolyn Russo, produced by the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (New York, 1997). The photograph of Bessie Coleman was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Additional information regarding airports and educational programs for youths is available from: Chicago
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