Kudos to Craig Gibson (Palm Springs Airport Expansion, June 8). It’s all very well to tout the airport expansion and resulting boost to tourism, jobs etc. but local and federal agencies including our ...

In 1939, after Germany invaded Poland, pilot Jacqueline Cochran wrote to first lady Eleanor Roosevelt to encourage the use of female pilots in the armed forces. Mrs. Carmine earned her pilot’s ...

This sleek two-seater first flew in 1959 and went on to train over 50,000 pilots—including famed fliers like Navy Captain Wally Schirra and record-setter Jacqueline Cochran. Known as the “Speed Queen, ...

The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

-- Aviation pioneer Jacqueline Cochran in 1906 -- Actor Doodles Weaver in 1911 -- Physicist Richard Feynman in 1918 -- Actor Bernard Fox in 1927 -- Actor/comedian Mort Sahl in 1927 ...

The new and beautiful signage modernizes the entrance to our Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport in the Thermal community.” The improvements continue as 20 damaged palm trees will be replaced ...

The pilots, it said, “Fly 121 Types of Planes, Sleep Wherever They Land, Find Romance and Tragedy.” Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix, winner of Bendix Transcontinental Air Race, 1938.

The T-38 Talon that Jacqueline Cochran flew, pictured before its recent restoration. James Walker / NASM On August 24, 1961, a jet streaked over the desert near Edwards Air Force Base.

Ahead of Coachella, the public charter jet service JSX is offering several semi-private “pop up” flights throughout the weekend from Burbank, California, to Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport ...

Memo from U.S. Army Commanding General Hap Arnold to Jacqueline Cochran instructing her to deactivate the WASP, sent on Oct. 1, 1944. Eisenhower Presidential Library ...