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Dora Dougherty Strother
Dr. Dora Jean Dougherty Strother (also known as Dora Dougherty McKeown and/or Dora Strother McKeown; November 27, 1921 – November 19, 2013), was best known as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and B-29 Superfortress demonstration pilot. She was a U.S. military pilot, human factors engineer with Bell Aircraft, instructor at the University of Illinois and helicopter test pilot for Bell Aircraft.
Strother held a PhD in Aviation Education (NYU, 1955). She was a recipient of the Amelia Earhart Award for academic achievement and was an inductee in the Military Aviation Hall of Fame.〔("Eagle Biography: Dora Jean Dougherty Strother" ). Air University; accessed August 23, 2013.〕 Strother was a 1987 inductee to the Texas Women's Hall of Fame.〔("Strother, Dora Jean Dougherty" ). Texas Women’s Hall of Fame; accessed August 23, 2013.〕 Strother was also a Whirly-Girl or a member of the International Women Helicopter Pilots, a member organization of the Helicopter Association International.
==Career as a WASP==
In 1940, Strother earned her pilot certificate via the Civilian Pilot Training Program, sponsored by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. She then became the sixth woman in the United States to earn an airline transport pilot license. The demand for male pilots in World War II opened doors for pilot training programs for women. Initially, two separate training programs were run: the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) was headed by Nancy Harkness Love and the 319th Women's Flying Training Detachment (WFTD) organized by Jacqueline Cochran out of Houston. The programs were merged in 1943 as WASP and helmed by Cochran. Dora Jean Dougherty Strother volunteered and was selected in the third class of WASP program (43-3).〔("Eagle Biography: Dora Jean Dougherty Strother" ). Air University; accessed August 23, 2013.〕
Strother's piloting jobs in the Women’s Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) program included flight training, target towing for antiaircraft gunnery, ferrying, and radio control piloting. WASPS like Strother flew almost every type of plane used by Army Air Forces such as liaison, training, and cargo aircraft. They also flew and trained other pilots to fly fighters, dive bombers, attack bombers, and very heavy bombers like the B-29. In 1944, She and fellow WASP Dorothea Johnson Moorman were selected by Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets to learn to fly the Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber. The plane was considered dangerous and cumbersome, and Tibbets believed the two women could learn to fly the four-engine plane to showcase its reliability. After four days of flight training, Strother and Moorman flew the B-29 from Birmingham, Alabama, to Clovis, New Mexico. There they took male crews on flights and further trained them, demonstrating the feasibility of flying the B-29.〔Negar Tekeei. ("Fly Girl" ). Northwestern 2002; accessed August 23, 2013.〕 Strother was honorably discharged from the U.S. Air Force on December 20, 1944, having commanded 23 different aircraft.〔
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