WOMEN ON FLIGHT / DESTINED TO FLY / From her first solo flight at 15 to piloting NASA's Challenger simulator in her 80s, Elinor Smith has been at home in the cockpit Series: The story of teenage pilot Elinor Smith is the second in an occasional series on pioneer women aviators. All three stories are excerpted from a new Newsday book, "Takeoff!How Long Island Inspired America to Fly," about the men and women who set records and flew into history from Long Island: ALL EDITIONS
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LONG ISLAND: OUR STORY / CHAPTER 7: THE MODERN ERA / Fliers Take Wing / Risking life and limb, they turn LI into a buzzing center of innovation in aviation. SIDEBARS: 1) A Craving For Speed, Danger. 2) FLYING MACHINES AS MASS ENTERTAINMENT. 3) EARLY AVIATOR TELLS HER STORY. (See end of text.: ALL EDITIONS
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