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Podcast: Literary Aviatrix: The Power of Story - Women in Aviation
Episode: Book Launch - Eileen Bjorkman's FLY GIRLS REVOLT tells the story of women in military aviation from the WASP to the repeal of the Combat Exclusion Policy
Description: Send us Fan MailAuthor, retired Air Force Colonel, former flight test engineer, and Executive Director of the Air Force Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, Eileen Bjorkman, talks about her new book, FLY GIRLS REVOLT: THE STORY OF THE WOMEN WHO KICKED OPEN THE DOOR TO FLY IN COMBAT, available May 23rd, 2023. Eileen weaves her own experience as an Air Force flight test engineer in this history that, uniquely among books that follow the history of women in military aviation, bridges the gap between the WASP and the first active duty female aviators in the 1970...