Jacqueline Cochran was born on May 11, 1906, in DeFuniak Springs, Florida. Jacqueline was a pioneer in the field of American aviation, she is considered to be one of the most gifted racing pilots of her generation. Jacqueline grew up in poverty. Jacqueline attempted to leave the squalor of her childhood by running away with the circus, but the circus left without her. In her early teens, she moved in with a Jewish family that owned hair salons. Jacqueline grew up in the worse possible conditions in sawmill camp towns: had no shoes, wore dresses made from old flour socks and was nearly always hungry from having no food. When Jacqueline was young she was hired by a beauty shop to sweep floors, she later on started cutting hair for a living. With Jacqueline not being satisfied with working in a small beauty shop, Jacqueline enrolled in nursing school and later worked in a doctor’s office, but she knew that, that she did not quite fit in that profession. Jacqueline traveled to New York to advance her hairdressing career.
On a trip to Miami, Florida, Jacqueline attended a society dinner and sat next to a business financier Floyd Odlum. Jacqueline then realized that her and Floyd have so much in common, that one day Floyd suggested that…show more content… In 1940, she broke both the national 100-kilometer and international 2,000-kilometer speed records. Ended up winning the Woman’s National Aviation Association award as outstanding woman pilot for `38, `39, `40 and `41. As we thought that all these records were over, she just broke more. Jacqueline also established a woman’s national altitude record and broke the international open-class speed record for both men and women! Jacqueline Cochran went higher and faster into the frontiers of aviation than any woman before, breaking through the glass ceiling and the sound barrier- from rags to riches-blazing a trail for other heroic women to follow. She was truly ‘one of a
