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Jacqueline Auriol
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I was broken into a million pieces. I had no face, no nose, nothing. I had the chance of my life to really become a good pilot. Now that my beauty was gone I would have to derive a reason for being from the plane which had taken it away.
Jacqueline Auriol
Following an airplane crash as a passenger that required three years in hospitals and 33 reconstructive operations. To occupy her mind she studied algebra, trigonometry, aerodynamics, and other subjects necessary to obtain advanced pilot certification. She went on to be a jet test pilot. Quoted in her obituary, The New York Times newspaper, 17 February 2000.
I feel so happy when I’m flying! Why? It’s not easy to explain. Perhaps it is the feeling of power, the pleasure of dominating a machine as beautiful and as sensitive as a thoroughbred horse. … Mingled with these basic joys is another less primitive feeling, that of a mission accomplished. Each time I set foot on an airfield, I sense with fresh excitement that this is where I belong. Time has in no way lessened this thrill, for I feel it just as strongly today, like a daily miracle.
Jacqueline Auriol
Test pilot, second lady to go faster than sound, and a women’s speed record holder, in her 1970 book I Live to Fly
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