By Nancy Roe Pimm
— Dorothy S. Cochrane, curator, Smithsonian nationwide Air and house Museum
In this biography for middle-grade readers, Nancy Roe Pimm tells the tale of Geraldine “Jerrie” Mock, the 1st girl to fly solo worldwide. In her trusty Cessna, The Spirit of Columbus—also referred to as Charlie—she traveled from Columbus, Ohio, on an eastward path that totaled approximately twenty-three thousand miles and took virtually a month. Overcoming wind, ice, mechanical difficulties, and even perhaps sabotage, Mock persevered.
Mock stuck the aviation computer virus at seven years previous, whilst she rode in a Ford Trimotor airplane together with her mom and dad. In highschool, she displayed a expertise for math and technological know-how, and she or he was once the one girl in her aeronautical engineering periods at Ohio country college. even though she then settled into household lifestyles, she by no means misplaced her curiosity in flying. What started as a joking recommendation from her husband to fly around the globe caused her to pursue her adolescence dream. however the dream grew to become a race, as one other girl, Joan Merriam Smith, additionally sought to be the 1st to circle the globe.
Even even though Mock beat Smith and finished what her heroine Amelia Earhart had died attempting to do, her feat was once overshadowed by way of the Vietnam conflict and different international occasions. Now, Pimm introduces Mock to a brand new new release of adventurers.
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