Pancho Barnes, Amelia Earhart and Louise Shaden, undated

Florence Lowe Pancho Barnes, Amelia Earhart and Louise Shaden in front of an airplane, undated. Pancho Barnes was a pioneer aviator and a founder of the first movie stunt pilots\u27 union. In 1930, she broke Amelia Earhart\u27s air speed record. Barnes raced in the Women\u27s Air Derby and was a member of the Ninety-Nines. In later years, she was known as the owner of the Happy Bottom Riding Club, a bar and restaurant in the Mojave Desert, Southern California, catering to the legendary test pilots and aviators who worked nearby. Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and writer. She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. During an attempt at becoming the first woman to complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-phoebefomlie1/1012/thumbnail.jp