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  • Today in Florida History May 11, 1906 – The first woman to break the speed of sound in an airplane Jacqueline Cochran was born in Muscogee near Pensacola on this date. Cochran began flying airplanes in the early 1930s after moving to New York and was soon competing in a number of speed races. During WWII she became the director of the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) program which trained hundreds of female pilots. After the...Read more
 

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