Jacqueline Cochran's Addressing Career
Essay on Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran was born May 11, 1906, in Defuniak Springs, Florida. In her early teens she was hired by a beauty shop to sweep the floors. After a few years later she was cutting hair for a living, however not satisfied with working in a small beauty shop Cochran so enter in a nursing school and later worked in a doctor’s office. After a few month she began to miss her beauty shop and decide to return. Soon after returning she traveled to New York she advanced her hairdressing career soon her business was thriving. On a trip to Miami, Florida, in 1932, Cochran was attending a society dinner and sat next to business financier name Floyd Odlum. Though both had different personality, they found out that they have many common after the society dinner they two began to see each other more often. Odlum recommend to her about learn to fly to call on clients and gain …show more content…
an advantage over her competition.
Cochran returned to New York, and over the next four year she learner to flight and gained a commercial pilot’s license .In 1936, she married odium and she also befriended a fellow aviator Amelia Earhart and began competing in air races. Jacqueline Cochran participating in major competitions while still running a multi-million-dollar beauty products business. In 1939 World War 2 began Cochran believed that America might become involved in the war. She also felt that women should play a role in the war. With this in mind, Cochran wrote to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt proposing a women’s flying division. This idea was turn down by General Henry Arnold he believed women should not be out in the field to prove General Henry H wrong. In 1940 Jaquelin Cochran had broke both the national 100 kilometer and international 2,000 kilometer speed records. She won the Women‘s National Aviation Association award as the outstanding woman pilot for ’38, ‘39, ’40 and ‘41.
In 1941, General Arnold received news on Jacqueline Cochran accomplishment he soon reconsidered Jacqueline Cochran’s proposal.
So after she was appointed to the General Staff of the U.S. Army Air Forces to direct the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and trained women pilots for the length of the war. After the war Jacqueline Cochran continued to follow her passion for air races and aviation competition In May 1953, at Rogers Dry Lake, California, she became the first woman to ever break the sound barrier. For this accomplishment in 1971 she was enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton. After entering the Aviation Hall of Fame she would need a pacemaker and that meant her days of flying were over. She retired to her home in Indio, California, to enjoy travel, and working in her vegetable garden. Her husband, Floyd, died in 1976, and soon after Cochran Jacqueline pass away on August 9, 1980.In conclusion Cochran Jacqueline was a great aviator and still till this day she holds more international speed, distance and altitude records than any other pilot, male or
female.
Jacqueline Cochran was born May 11, 1906, in Defuniak Springs, Florida. In her early teens she was hired by a beauty shop to sweep the floors. After a few years later she was cutting hair for a living, however not satisfied with working in a small beauty shop Cochran so enter in a nursing school and later worked in a doctor’s office. After a few month she began to miss her beauty shop and decide to return. Soon after returning she traveled to New York she advanced her hairdressing career soon her business was thriving. On a trip to Miami, Florida, in 1932, Cochran was attending a society dinner and sat next to business financier name Floyd Odlum. Though both had different personality, they found out that they have many common after the society dinner they two began to see each other more often. Odlum recommend to her about learn to fly to call on clients and gain …show more content…
an advantage over her competition.
Cochran returned to New York, and over the next four year she learner to flight and gained a commercial pilot’s license .In 1936, she married odium and she also befriended a fellow aviator Amelia Earhart and began competing in air races. Jacqueline Cochran participating in major competitions while still running a multi-million-dollar beauty products business. In 1939 World War 2 began Cochran believed that America might become involved in the war. She also felt that women should play a role in the war. With this in mind, Cochran wrote to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt proposing a women’s flying division. This idea was turn down by General Henry Arnold he believed women should not be out in the field to prove General Henry H wrong. In 1940 Jaquelin Cochran had broke both the national 100 kilometer and international 2,000 kilometer speed records. She won the Women‘s National Aviation Association award as the outstanding woman pilot for ’38, ‘39, ’40 and ‘41.
In 1941, General Arnold received news on Jacqueline Cochran accomplishment he soon reconsidered Jacqueline Cochran’s proposal.
So after she was appointed to the General Staff of the U.S. Army Air Forces to direct the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and trained women pilots for the length of the war. After the war Jacqueline Cochran continued to follow her passion for air races and aviation competition In May 1953, at Rogers Dry Lake, California, she became the first woman to ever break the sound barrier. For this accomplishment in 1971 she was enshrined in the Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton. After entering the Aviation Hall of Fame she would need a pacemaker and that meant her days of flying were over. She retired to her home in Indio, California, to enjoy travel, and working in her vegetable garden. Her husband, Floyd, died in 1976, and soon after Cochran Jacqueline pass away on August 9, 1980.In conclusion Cochran Jacqueline was a great aviator and still till this day she holds more international speed, distance and altitude records than any other pilot, male or
female.