- 1928- Did a record breaking flying a plane in 4 hours and 12 miutes
1932- Jackie Cochran began taking flying lessons at Roosevelt Field on Long Island. On her third day she flew solo.
1934--She got her Pilots License
1934--12,000 Race from England to Melbourne Australia $50,000 Jacqueline desperpetly wanted to win, but she didn't.
1935--Bendix Race- No woman had ever entered, and she got third place.
1938--1940 Clifford Burke Harmon Trophy as the outstanding woman flier in the world
1939--She set a new altitude and international speed record and became the first woman to make a blind landing.
1940--She broke the record of 2,000 International Speed Record
1943-She was appointed to the staff of the U.S. Army Air Forces and director of Women's Air force Service Pilots (WASP)
1962-64 Jaqueline established sixty-nine intercity and straight-line distance jet records. 1975- Jaqueline became the first woman to be honored at the U.S. Air During World War II she had 25 Woman To fly Great Britain.
Distugished Service Medal during the War
The reason that I did this person is that I did not know anything about her, and that I wanted to learn something new about them.
The quote at the top of the page means that Amelia Earhart said that she shouldn't be able to enter the Bendix Race, because she said that it wasn't a woman's race, and only men should be able to enter.
At the age of six Jackie realized that she lived with orphan parents. She later learned that her real name may have been Bessie Lee Pittman. She never revealed her foster family's name or how she received the name Jacqueline. She chose her last name, from a phone book. Her foster family was very poor and the living conditions were very bad for Jackie.
She had wanted to run away from her home and join the circus, but never did. Throughout her life she had a love for the circus and when she was an adult she rode the lead elephant in the opening of the Ringling Brothers Circus, in Madison Square Garden.
Jackie began working at the age of 8. She stayed in the homes of women who had recently given birth and cared for them and their families. While working in the homes, she learned how to cook and developed a talent for preparing excellent meals, which she continued to do throughout her life. At the age of 14, she left home and moved to Montgomery, Alabama.
She obtained a job as an operator of a permanent wave machine in a beauty salon. When she was twenty years old, she moved to New York and worked for the Antoine Salon. She traveled to Miami Beach to serve the customers of the salon who wintered there.
On May 11, 1936, Cochran married Floyd Odlum and they had a home in California called Cochran-Odlum Ranch, an apartment in Manhattan and an estate in Connecticut. Jaqueline finally had a homes of her own that she longed for as a child. She also established an orphanage near her New York apartment.
In May 9, 1996 in Indio, California, the United States Post Office issued the Jacqueline Cochran stamp in the denomination of fifty centers. The stamp has her pictured in aviator gear with the words: "Jacqueline Cochran Pioneer Pilot."