Category Archives: aviation history

Aerial Nurse Corps’ Inaugural Post day

1936 National Air Races: Aerial Nurse Corps’ inaugural post, first women to win the Bendix Race, stunt pilots, and a crash at the end. Pages 39-48 in the book explain this race in detail. It was a huge event of parades with 30 floats from downtown Los Angeles 30 miles to the Airport with squadrons of military planes flying overhead. I can’t image an event like that today.