Pancho Barnes: Taming the Air

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #015 She’s Not There, part 2

Florence Leontine Lowe is better known today as Pancho Barnes, fearless stunt pilot and proprietor of the legendary "Happy Bottom Riding Club" outside Edwards Air Force Base in California.  One of her grandfathers, Richard Dobbins, built Memorial Hall for the Centennial.  The other grandfather, Thaddeus Lowe, invented the Air Force.