The Pitts Special S-1C known as "Little Stinker."
BARBARA KLEIN: Dorothy Cochrane is an aviation expert at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. She has studied and worked with Betty Skelton.
DOROTHY COCHRANE: “Betty was such a wonderful aerobatic pilot that she really set the bar high for other women to follow behind her and she was a great role model for them. She really was as good as some of the men.”
BARBARA KLEIN: Ms. Cochrane says Betty Skelton flew during a period when men and women aerobatic pilots competed separately. And she set the example when later women did compete and win against men.
DOROTHY COCHRANE: “She also became the first woman to perform the inverted ribbon cut. And that’s a very tricky thing to do.”
BARBARA KLEIN: This flying trick involved using her plane’s propeller to cut a ribbon held between two tall sticks. Betty Skelton did this while flying about three meters off the ground—upside down.
MARIO RITTER: Once Ms. Skelton had made her mark flying, she moved on to racecars. She became the first female test driver in the racecar industry. She set several land speed records. She also set a cross-country record, driving from New York to California in under fifty-seven hours. And, she became one of the top women advertising experts working with General Motors in support of the company’s Corvette car.
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