NARRATOR: By mid-1943, WASPs were ferrying aircraft throughout the United States often under difficult conditions. ROBERT ARNOLD, HAP ARNOLD'S GRANDSON: Jackie Cochran was one of those people, when I grew up in my house, had the kind of status that Jimmy Doolittle had. They'll be used in domestic service only. Now I think when you join the military you obviously go through a mind set that you are prepared for something like this. Willie Walker  I didn't think that I had a four engine hand. Great Barrier Island was the site of New Zealand's last whaling station, at Whangaparapara, which opened in 1956, over a century after the whaling industry peaked in New Zealand, and closed due to depletion of whaling stocks and increasing protection of whales by 1962. Forests were well inland, with no easy way to get the logs to the sea or to sawmills. But it's what makes her fascinating as an individual. Aerial Cinematography  This was the first time that I had seen a friend die. Rare animals found on the island include brown teal ducks, black petrel seabirds and kaka parrots. He had a war to win. Marine biologist Jessica Shackleton has shared a mesmerising video of around 100 cownose rays swimming through the Great Barrier reef, a rare sighting of the specie in Australian waters. Women postponed their weddings, put … BARBARA LONDON: We never knew on a trip whether we were going to be in a single engine airplane or a twin engine airplane or whether we were going to be, have room to carry stuff or not. I met B J Erickson and I asked does she have an extra pair of slacks, And she says no. Fort joins the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Service to fly planes from factories to military air bases, and tragically becomes the first American woman to die on active military duty. The island is free of some of the more troublesome introduced pests that plague the native ecosystems of other parts of New Zealand. They chatter about the glamour of flying. A Silverlining Productions film I mean, there is no other place in the military that you flew the variety of airplanes that you did in the Ferry Command. [9] The logging industry cut down large amounts of old growth, and most of the current growth is younger native forest (around 150,000 kauri seedlings were planted by the New Zealand Forest Service in the 1970s and 1980s) as well as some remaining kauri in the far north of the island. Alberta Kinney Film Processing For AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Flight time is approximately 35 minutes from Auckland Airport. All rights reserved. After all these stories that he told me about this P47! Colville Channel separates the southernmost point, Cape Barrier, from Cape Colville at the northern tip of the Coromandel Peninsula to the south, Cradock Channel from the smaller Little Barrier Island to the west. Robin Lee NARRATOR: Women were assigned to airbases across the country. I said, "You ruined my whole life, I've waited so long to get in this and you didn't send in my form." It took me years to understand that. With an area of 285 square kilometres (110 sq mi), Great Barrier Island is the sixth-largest island in New Zealand after the South Island, the North Island, Stewart Island/Rakiura, Chatham Island, and Auckland Island. [3] Some remains can be visited. Many children leave the island when they reach secondary school age to attend boarding school on the mainland. Maureen Barden The Woman's Collection, Texas Woman's University Christine Larson People in my family always respected people who had tenacity of purpose and Jackie Cochran had tenacity of purpose. And she received the Harmon Trophy, for outstanding female aviator, from first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Tom Danaher MADGE MINTON: Jackie had a dream just like the rest of us. EAA Sport Aviation Association ANN CARL: It was not what they did for themselves but how they fit in and did a job for the war effort. Seaplanes that land easily on wilderness lakes have glided into aviation art as part of many compelling nature shots. Jackie Cochran came to investigate. Phil Paul  And Avenger Field became known as Cochran's Convent. DORA STROTHER: And I think that's what the WASP did, was to reaffirm the fact that we are still the pioneer women that my grandmother represented. The report revealed that the WASP had flown over 60 million miles in every type of aircraft. I've never heard anything so inspiring as those 650 horses. DORA DOUGHERTY STROTHER earned a Ph.D. in Aviation Education, became a helicopter pilot and set two world records. Great Barrier Island is the place to experience New Zealand at its natural best. Oh would you like to swing on a star Greg Gilmore Helen R. Russell They were housewives and mothers, co-eds and farm girls, socialites, secretaries, even actresses. The population swells substantially from October to May. Because half of the brain power of our country is in the heads of its women and if we don't use this to the best of our advantage, then we are the poorer for it. GENERAL TIBBETS: Duzenberry, to be the flight engineer, he got me off to one side, when he could. She fought for the concept that she believed in, that women could do this. [19], As part of Auckland the rules governing daily activities and applicable standards for civic works and services exists, shared with some of the other inhabited islands of the Hauraki Gulf. Previously, the lack of secondary schooling was cited as one of the reasons for a slow exodus of long-term resident families. I worked the girls hard three days, we flew for seven hours a day. From the end of February 2007, the island was seen around the world as the setting for the BBC One reality show Castaway, which was filmed there for three months. Special postage stamps were issued from October 1898 until 1908, when a new communications cable was laid to the mainland, which made the pigeon post redundant. After a deadly shooting at a King Soopers in Boulder we remember the 10 victims who tragically lost their lives. And they are suppose to be taken off the flight line until that's fixed. Locals were split on the project, some hoping for new jobs. Once again Cochran appealed to her ally, Hap Arnold. Danielle Dell'Olio Sailing time is approximately four and a half hours. With a maximum length (north-south) of some 43 kilometres (27 mi), it and the Coromandel Peninsula (directly to its south) protect the Gulf from the storms of the Pacific Ocean to the east. NARRATOR: Barbara (BJ) Erickson was a Home Economics major at the University of Washington and an instructor for military pilots. Although they wear uniformed costumes and are trained by army officers, they have Civil Service status not military and the pay is $3,000 a year. So long, ladies, go to it. Post Production And yet all my girls got in their cars and drove home. In just ten years, Jackie Cochran would capture seventeen world records. CHUCK YEAGER, U.S. AIR FORCE: I think what she got when she married Floyd, I think was an opening door for her, because what she saw was the opportunity not only to have drive and initiative, but to use power. NARRATOR: Madge Rutherford was finalizing her wedding plans to Sherman Minton when she received a telegram. I'd have flown those airplanes for free. From that day on we never had a pilot who didn't want to fly the B29. Fearless as falcons and twice as fast and in their new and unusual occupation these modern girls are still the feminine heirs to a nobel tradition of pioneering strength and courage. Add motion to your walls and fly away with this stunning collection of Aviation Art. Public sentiment began to change. You know you can wear a pair of pants a long time. National Archives Field Production [3][8], In early 2010, a government proposal to remove 705 ha of land on the Te Ahumatā Plateau (called "White Cliffs" by the locals) from Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act, which gives protection from the mining of public land, was widely criticised. Barbara Harris Gary Coates The area's regenerating bushland still holds numerous semi-collapsed or open mining shafts where silver and gold had been mined. There are three primary schools: Mulberry Grove School at Tryphena, Kaitoke School at Claris, and Okiwi School. NARRATOR: Just six months earlier it had been heroic to do a man's job, but by mid 1944, it was considered unpatriotic. National Park Service, National Capital Region Book online to find the cheapest airfares to Great Barrier Island. Teresa James left one morning on a ferry trip that was to take a day. We had to deliver the goods or else. TIBBETS: No way I would have interfered. And she said: "God James, do you look like the wrath of God.". Consequently, the island boasts highly contrasting coastal environments. [8] The Port FitzRoy wharf is owned by the North Barrier Residents and Ratepayers Association. Archival Photographs Robert and Lorraine Ladevich We also went in the pressure chamber. Optical Gel™ A multi-sensory bird repellent. Great Barrier Island (Māori: Aotea) lies in the outer Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, 100 kilometres (62 mi) north-east of central Auckland. There were 531 households. Kaitoke Beach in the east of Great Barrier Island. NARRATOR: The all women's Air Force Base created a sensation. MADGE MINTON: It was incredibly beautiful to be able to do what we knew we wanted to do and we were very patriotic about it all. Executive Producer I was gone 30 days and I said never again will I ever trust the army when they say, you know, just a short trip out and back. Keep `em flying, fifinella. Southwest Airlines  So I said, "I'm sorry, but, I'm really upset about this." I sort of forgot about this. You are either hot or cold. BARBARA ERICKSON LONDON continues to sell aircraft.

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