guessing it's the documentary Fly Girls from 1999? Chuck Yeagers name isn't mentioned in the imdb listing, but sure seems to be that program. Yeah, guessing the very beginning is missing, sorry.
Their record, exemplary. Their treatment, monstrous. My flight instructor was a woman, my wife too is a pilot. This is of no notice today because great women such as Jackie Cochran and the women of the WASPs led the way. I am the father of two daughters and I promoted Jackie Cochran, the women of the WASPs, Amelia Earhart, and Patty Wagstaff to them as role models.
Prejudice? I am shocked they were not given military honors. I guess in many areas of life mankind needs to evolve. And female injection. I salute Wasp troops. Lt. ( Skimmer) USAF Ret.
“Basically she was very aggressive....” Translation: How dare a woman assert herself and threaten my oversized ego and my fragile widdle masculinity. And horror or horrors, Chuck-then women (gasp!) flew into space. Yeesch.
I don't believe there were movies produced that showcased these brave airwomen. The sole exception I'm aware of is a SyFy flick concerning female pilots wearing thick red lipstick forced landed in a South Pacific island full of CGI dinosaurs out to get them. Sad.
You are right. Totally ridiculous that many more films come out about men in WWII and not a film YET about women pilots in WWII - when everyone knows there were women nurses, women in the WACS and the Rosie the Riveters. I have been trying to tell my story in a miniseries for 30 years - intertwining the women pilots in England flying for the ATA, the WASP and the black women pilots who wanted to help in the war effort but were denied access to the WASP due to color and segregation laws at the time. Loretta Young starred in "Ladies Courageous" in 1944 supposedly running a Ferry Group like Nancy Love. When it came out in theaters, the women dubbed it "Ladies Outrageous"! It was embarrassing to them. Many insiders in Hollywood who never knew a single WASP have tried to tell the WASP story. None have gone forward thank God. It is time to get one done that is truthful with 30 years of research behind it and giving credit to the real women who lived this story! I developed the largest exhibit in the country at Seattle Museum of Flight in 2004. Please visit!
