Betty Haas Pfister
 Betty Haas Pfister | |
|---|---|
| Rayuwa | |
| Haihuwa |
Great Neck Peninsula (mul)  , 23 ga Yuli, 1921 |
| ƙasa | Tarayyar Amurka |
| Mutuwa |
Aspen (en) , 17 Nuwamba, 2011 |
| Karatu | |
| Makaranta |
Bennington College (mul) |
| Sana'a | |
| Sana'a | Matukin jirgin sama |
Elizabeth Haas Pfister (23 ga Yuli, 1921 – 17 ga Nuwamba, 2011) matukin jirgin sama ne na Amurka.
Tarihin Rayuwa
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]An haifi Haas Pfister a Great Neck, New York, ita ce ta biyu a cikin 'ya'ya uku na Merle (née Simon) da Robert Kalman Haas Sr. (ɗan wani dillalin California Kalman Haas ). [1] [2] Ta nuna sha'awarta ga harkokin sufurin jiragen sama tun tana ƙarama, [3] kuma ta fara ɗaukar darussan tashi da jirgin sama yayin da take halartar Kwalejin Bennington da ke Vermont. [2] A lokacin da ta kammala karatunta (da wuri, tare da digiri a fannin ilmin halittu na ruwa), [2] tana da isassun sa'o'in tashi don zama ɗan takara don shiga Matan Jiragen Sama na Sojan Sama . [4]
A matsayinta na memba na WASP, tun daga shekarar 1943, ta yi jigilar jiragen sama na soja a cikin Amurka, tana jigilar su daga masana'anta zuwa filin jirgin sama ko filin jirgin sama zuwa tashar jiragen ruwa. Kamar sauran membobin WASP, ta kuma taimaka wajen yin atisaye a sararin samaniya, jan jiragen sama, [3] da kuma tashi da jiragen gwaji. [1]
Bayan Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu ya ƙare, Haas Pfister ta sayi (kan dala $750) wani jirgin yaƙi na Bell P-39 Airacobra da aka dakatar da aiki. [5] Jirgin, mai lamba 44-2433, bai taɓa ganin yaƙi ba a lokacin yaƙin. [5] Haas Pfister ya sanya masa suna "Galloping Gertie", ya zana shi ja da fari, sannan ya yi amfani da shi a tsere da nune-nune. [5] An ba da rancen jirgin ga Cibiyar Smithsonian a shekarar 1950, tare da gudummawar da ta zama ta dindindin a shekarar 1956. [5] A cikin aikinta na tsere, Haas Pfister ta lashe Gasar Jiragen Sama ta Duniya ta Duk Mata sau biyu, a cikin 1950 da 1952. [3]
A cikin aikinta na baya, Haas Pfister ta yi ayyuka da dama na sufurin jiragen sama. Bayan yaƙin, ta yi aiki a Pan American Airways a matsayin mai kula da jiragen sama kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin mai koyar da harkokin jiragen sama. [1] Ta fara tuka wasu jiragen sama kamar gliders da balan-balan, [2] kuma a shekarar 1953, ta sami lasisin helikwafta, [1] mace 'yar Amurka ta 52 da ta yi hakan. [3] [4] Ta fafata da Ƙungiyar Jiragen Sama ta Amurka a gasar cin kofin duniya ta 1973 da 1978 sannan daga baya ta yi aiki a matsayin alkali. [1]
Haas Pfister ta yi kira da a inganta filin jirgin saman Aspen-Pitkin County wanda ya ba shi damar ɗaukar manyan zirga-zirgar kasuwanci. [4] [2] Ta kula da gina tashar jirgin saman Aspen Valley Hospital . [1] Ta kuma taimaka wajen kafa ƙungiyar ceto ta Pitkin County Air Rescue Group, tana gudanar da ayyukan ceto da dama a tsaunuka. [4] Ta kafa reshen Aspen na ƙungiyar mata matukan jirgin ƙasa ta Ninety-Nines [2] da kuma bikin Snowmass, Colorado, Balloon Festival.
Manazarta
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]- 1 2 3 "Love at First Flight: Former WASP Still Living Life at Full Throttle". Airport Journals. March 1, 2006. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Parrish, Nancy (November 17, 2011). "WASP Elizabeth 'Betty' Haas Pfister, 43-W-5 Nov. 17, 2011". Final Flight. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
- 1 2 3 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedNYT_Obit - 1 2 3 "Elisabeth H. Pfister". Colorado Aviation Historical Society. Archived from the original on December 7, 2011. Retrieved March 24, 2018.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
- 1 2 3 4 "Bell P-39Q-15-BE Airacobra "Galloping Gertie"". National Air and Space Museum. Archived from the original on August 10, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 2018.