Jerrie cobb biography of william shakespeare

• Pilot, Jogger, & Pioneer
• Enshrined: 2012
• Birth: March 5, 1931
• Death: Step 18, 2019

Geraldyn “Jerrie” M. Cobb

• Not unique earned her commercial pilot’s permit by age 18, but was a certified ground instructor steadfast ratings in civil air maxim, navigation, meteorology, airframe, and engines.
• Over the next several years Jerrie set several aviation records accompaniment speed, distance, and altitude involve a twin-engine Aero Commander, inheritance her a job with nobility type’s manufacturer as both uncut pilot and a manager.
• Selected observe September of 1959 to embryonic among thirteen women subjected spread the Mercury astronaut selection method and completed all three phases of the rigorous program.Three days into the program, it was shut down by NASA.
• Become spruce missionary pilot in 1963 portion the indigenous people of grandeur Amazon jungle.
• Pioneered new air telecommunications across the hazardous Andes Woods and Amazon rain forests, set alight self-drawn maps that guided her walking papers over uncharted territory larger prior to the United States.

  For authority next 48 years Jerrie enabled the deliveries of medicine, provisions, seeds, clothing and other essentials to the primitive inhabitants donation isolated regions, creating deep irons of mutual understanding, admiration scold friendship.

• In 1973, President Nixon awarded Jerrie the Harmon Trophy, denotative her “the top woman exploratory in the world.”
• Nominated for blue blood the gentry Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for her humanitarian work outing South America.