Walking on Air: The Aerial Adventures of Phoebe Omlie

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Walking on Air Walking on Air The Aerial Adventures of PHOEBE OMLIE Janann Sherman University Press of Mississippi • Jackson Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography www.upress.state.ms.us Designed by Peter D. Halverson The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Photograph on page ii by P. W. Hamilton, photographer for the Minneapolis Tribune. Phoebe Omlie Collection. Copyright © 2011 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 2011 ∞ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sherman, Janann. Walking on air : the aerial adventures of Phoebe Omlie / Janann Sherman. p. cm. — (Willie Morris books in memoir and biography) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-61703-124-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-61703-125-0 (ebook) 1. Omlie, Phoebe Fairgrave, 1902–1975. 2. Women air pilots—United States— Biography. 3. Air pilots—United States—Biography. 4. Aeronautics—United States—History—20th century. I. Title. TL540.O45S56 2011 629.13092—dc22 [B] 2010053401 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available To Charlie, who taught me how to live This page intentionally left blank ...