Front:
30th POWDER
Palm Springs, CA to
Fran Bera, 7 - time winner
PUFF DERBY
Tampa, FL July 1-4, 1977
Marian Banks, AWTAR Chairman,
Barbara Evans, Vice-chairman
Jerrie Cobb, only
woman to qualify
for outer space flight
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Carolyn West, First winner, 1947
Back:
POST CARD
Fran Bera was winning co-pilot, 1951, and won as
pilot in 1953, 55, 56, 58, '61 and '82. In plane
shown she set a world altitude record in class C-1-D.
In 1971 she flew in the London, England air race to
Victoria, B.C.
HONOR PIONEERS - 24-B
POST, CARD
Marian Banks and Barbara Evans are officers of the All
Woman Transcontinental Air Race, Inc. which has held
the Powder Puff Derby for thirty years.
HONOR PIONEERS - 24-A
POST, CARD
Jerrie Cobb, in this year's Powder Puff Derby, is the
only woman to be qualified for outer space. She has
logged 27,000 hours including recent mercy flights in
the Amazon region of Brazil taking doctors, missionar-
ies and medical supplies to remote Indian tribes and
critically ill Indians out to distant clinics and hospitals
for The Jerrie Cobb Foundation of Moore Haven, FL.
HONOR PIONEERS - 24-D
POST CARD
Carolyn West won the first Powder Puff Derby held in
1947 over the same route, Palm Springs, CA to Tampa,
FL, used for the 30th commemorative flight of 1977.
Published by Roy Votaw
HONOR PIONEERS - 24-C
