MOVING HISTORY FORWARD: 'She could fly anything with wings'
Sixteen-year-old Gladys Dawson had saved her money to buy an airplane ride, and after six seconds in the air she was hooked. A year later, 1932, the local newspaper reported that she made her first solo flight after only five hours of instruction. After a series of fights with her abusive father, Gladys packed a small suitcase and ran away from her home near Bellingham, Wash...
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