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Title
Sheila Scott
Full Description
Sheila Scott, born on April 27, 1927 in London, England, served
as governor of the British section of the Ninety-Nines, an
international association of licensed women pilots. The Ninety-
Nines originated as an association of American women pilots who
first gathered on November 2, 1929 at Curtiss Field, Valley
Stream, Long Island, New York. All 117 registered female pilots
in America at the time were invited, out of which twenty-six
attended the first meeting and 99 became charter members
dedicated to mutual support and the advancement of aviation.
Under the leadership of Amelia Earhart, the first president, and
the women who followed her, the organization grew and gained
international recognition.
Sheila Scott is pictured here with her Piper Aztec "Mythre," in
which she made her world and a half flight in 1971. On this
flight, she became the first person to fly over the North Pole
in a single engine plane. She carried special NASA equipment
for a communications experiment testing the Interrogation
Recording and Location System (IRLS) of the Nimbus polar
orbiting satellite. The IRLS equipment, a Balloon Interrogation
package, transmitted data on Scott's location during the 34,000-
mile around the world flight to the Nimbus satellite, which
relayed it to NASA's ground station at Fairbanks, Alaska and
then to a computer center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Sheila
Scott's record-making, historic flight confirmed the satellite's
ability to collect location
data from remote computerized and human-operated stations with a
unique "mobile platform" location test. She died on October 20,
1988.
Keywords
Women Ninety-Nines Aeronautics Nimbus Communication Satellites Interrogation Recording and Location System IRLS Sheila Scott 99s
Subject Category
Earth-Science and Weather-Satellites, Early Aerospace-Pioneers, Women,
Reference Numbers
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- Center Number:
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- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2004-00016
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: Digital
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