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Dora Dougherty Strother

Dora Jean Dougherty Strother congratulated by Bell chief test pilot R.C. Buyers (at left) and company president E.J. Ducayet (at right) in 1961 just after breaking the helicopter altitude record (at 19,406 feet) in a Bell 47G-3

  • ... that WASP pilot Dr. Dora Dougherty Strother held simultaneous records in helicopter flight with world records for altitude (19,406 feet) and distance (straight line 404.36 miles) from 1961 to 1966?

Created by Meghaninmotion (talk). Self nominated at 13:55, 26 August 2013 (UTC).

  • Looking into this--copy edits first. Drmies (talk) 02:55, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
  • Symbol confirmed.svg New enough, long enough. I remove some words that were too close to the original; I did not see more. Hope you get lots of hits. This is Meghan's first DYK, so no review is required. Drmies (talk) 03:12, 27 August 2013 (UTC)