Jack Hitt
speaker
849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
And someone had closed the gate and they couldn't see it on the way back.
So the horse hit it and he flew off and broke a couple of his ribs.
And so when he did his famous test flight the next day, he had several broken ribs.
If he had told anybody, he would not have been able to fly.
And when he got into the cockpit, I think somebody noticed that he closed the thing with his left hand because he couldn't use his right hand.
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