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Janet Christine Dietrich (1926 – 5 June 2008) was a pilot and one of the Mercury 13 who underwent the same NASA testing in the early 1960s as the Mercury 7 astronauts. ==Early life== Born in San Francisco in 1926, Janet Dietrich (better known as Jan) was the daughter of Richard Dietrich, who worked in the import business, and his wife, Marion. Dietrich began flying at an early age, getting a student pilot certificate at age 16. Jan and her identical twin sister Marion Dietrich were the only girls in an aviation class at Burlingame High School. As an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, Dietrich was president of the UC Flying Club and trained as a pilot at Oakland International Airport, where she earned her private pilot license in 1946. In 1947, Dietrich and sister Marion, entered the inaugural Chico-to-San Mateo Air Race and took first place, defeating experienced men. After placing in other local races, the flying twins collected the second-place trophy in the 1951 All-Women's Transcontinental Air Race, known as the Powder Puff Derby, flying in a Stinson Voyager loaned to them by Futurist Donald Prell. Soon after graduating from Cal in 1949, Dietrich became chief pilot of Cessna, then the world's largest light aircraft manufacturer, located in Wichita. In her job, Dietrich delivered multi-engine aircraft from the factory in Wichita, KS, conducted test flights for the shop, flew charters and supervised the flight and ground schools. In 1953 she was the chief pilot of Santa Monica Flyers, a flight school in Santa Monica, California. In the late 1950s, Miss Dietrich worked as a federal pilot examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration, performing pilot evaluations and issuing certificates.〔http://www.astronautix.com/astros/dietrich.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Janet Dietrich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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