had forgotten how ordinary the beginning had been.
She had grown up in a small town in Ohio, where the nearest airfield was little more than a strip of pavement surrounded by farmland. Her father repaired farm machinery. Her mother taught mathematics at the local high school.
Pauline had been fascinated by aircraft since childhood.
At twelve, she could identify the silhouettes of military planes from books borrowed at the library. At sixteen, she had saved enough money from summer jobs to pay for introductory flying lessons. By twenty-one, she
