and so i wanted to read lily koppel's book to see how she had done it, which is actually a thing that authors do i wanted to see how she had taken this story which we all know. and and flipped it around in reverse and told the sort of from the opposite perspective. and so i'm reading this book very closely on the plane. and i'm very early in the book and it mentioned that one of the wives was a private pilot. who had longed fly in an all-female airplane race that had started in the 1920s 1920s and had once featured amelia earhart. and that's the line that just stopped me. because like most of you i had never heard of air racing. i had never heard of in all female air race. i'd never heard of amelia racing anything. i only knew that story that most of us knew she flew across the ocean. she was the first one to do it. and so because it was 2016 i was able to open my computer get wi-fi off the plane and google it instantly. and i don't know what happens when you do that now, but in 2016 when you googled this race all i really found was a wikipedia page and it just listed the 20 women who

i wanted to read lily koppel's book to see how she had done it. i wanted to see how she had taken t this story which we all know and flipped it around and reverse and told it from the opposite perspective. so i'm reading this book very closely on the plane and very early in the book you mentioned that one of the wives was a private pilot who had longs to fly in an all-female airplane race with that started in 1920s and featured amelia earhart. that's the line that stopped me because like most of you i had never heard of air racing and an all-female air race. i had never heard of familiar racingng anything. i'd onlyy knew the story that most of this flu, she flew across the ocean so because it was 2015 and i was able to open my computer and get wi-fi on the plane and google it and i don't know what happens when you do that now but in 2015 when you googled this race all i really found was a wikipedia page and that listed the 20 women who competed in that race. as i glanced at the list i quickly realized i only knew two of the names. a new amelia ear