Jack Hitt

So they had a cartoon cutout of Florence in the airplane as the pilot.

Yeah.

Nice.

Nice.

She was called Poncho Barnes.

She dressed as a man, smoked cigars, and she gets her pilot's license in 1928.

And at that time, a lot of air experimentation was done by women as much as men.

It's not just Amelia Earhart, whom we've all heard of.

In fact, Poncho, we'll now call her, became the first female stunt pilot in Hollywood.

Oh my goodness.

She broke Amelia Earhart's speed record.

She clocked 196.19 miles per hour.

It became the hangout after World War II.

And people would come out there and go horseback riding, but there would also be these wild parties at night.

And anyone who broke a record got a free steak dinner in the restaurant.

It was that kind of thing.

So everybody hung out there.

Chuck Yeager was one of the big attendees there.

By the way, great little story that I think he tells years later, but the night before he broke the sound barrier.

He went for a midnight ride with Poncho and some others at the Happy Bottom Riding Club.