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Nellie Zabel Willhite – First Deaf Female Pilot
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Discussion Question
If Nellie hadn't taken the job as a pilot, inspiring
d/Deaf children to fly, would there be any d/Deaf pilots today?
Eleanor "Nellie" Willhite
First Deaf Female Pilot
Work Cited
https://fookembug.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/nellie-zabel-willhite-first-deaf-female-pilot/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Zabel_Willhite
She worked as a commercial pilot until she was 52 in 1944 (the first and last deaf person to do so), carrying airmail.
Mary Wagener
Founded the South Dakota chapter of the “Ninety-Nines”, a group of pioneering women flyers.
Before her death in 1991, Nellie was inducted into the South Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame.
Her father bought her an an open-cockpit Alexander Eagle Rock OX-5 biplane. She nicknamed it "Pard", he father's nickname.
- She earned a living as a “barnstormer”
- Air shows, races and giving rides to whomever wanted one.
- She was outstanding in the tight, fast maneuvering necessary in balloon target racing in which pilots would fly into balloons to burst them.
- Worked as a typist-stenographer until an acquaintance, who was a flight instructor, suggested she learn how to fly.
- Enrolled in aviation school
- Began flying at the age of 35
- Her first solo flight took place in 1928.
Nellie was born in Box Elder, South Dakota in 1892.
She became d/Deaf two years later after contracting measles.
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