Onita Thorley Topping collection, 1931-1939.

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Onita Thorley Topping collection, 1931-1939.

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Newspaper clippings, pilots license, certificate of graduation, and photographs. Persons and topics represented include Womens Championship Air Races and Pacific Air Pageant, Air Navigation Derby, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, Lindbergh Field, Bessie Owens, Ninety-Nines, and Helen Kohlmeir.

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San Diego Aerospace Museum Library & Archives

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Owens, Bessie

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Kohlmeir, Helen

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Consolidated Aircraft (Firm)

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Ninety-Nines (Organization)

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The female pioneers of flight all began with aviatrixes, such as Amelia Earhart, Betty Wharton, and Blanche Noyes, in 1929. Their fame started with the creation of the "Ninety-Nines," an international organization of licensed women pilots established to educate and support their fellow women who have passion for flight. Named for the original 99 members, the "Ninety-Nines" were established at Curtiss Field, Long Island, New York....

Lindbergh Field (San Diego, Calif.)

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Topping, Onita Thorley, 1908-1991.

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Onita Thorley Topping, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Thorley of Cedar City, was a popular and noted pilot of the 1930s era. She learned to fly at the Von Hoffman School of Aviation at Lambert Field, St. Louis, Mo., earned her pilots license in 1930, her commercial rating in 1931, and then a rating as Master Mechanic. For a while, she was the only woman pilot in the entire state of Utah, where she learned how to fly in snowstorms. She participated in one of the most important air events of t...