70 Years Waiting for Full Recognition!

"Climb aboard the Curtiss-Wright       Starlight Express!"

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Jean-Vi Lenthe
2013 marks 70 YEARS since the Curtiss-Wright Aircraft Corporation initiated an amazing program to train 918 women, known as Curtiss-Wright Cadettes, to be aeronautical engineers. Please help me restore this story to the WWII record and acknowledge the accomplishments of these remarkable women. 

Many wonderful people have taken a ride on the Curtiss-Wright Starlight Express 
since the October 2011 publication of my book, 
Flying Into Yesterday: My Search for the Curtiss-Wright 
Aeronautical Engineering Cadettes. 
(For order info, click HERE.)
      This site features photos, notes, and stories from my    2012 booksigning tours and Cadette presentations,
including Women's History Month in Arizona & Texas, as well as September dinner lectures in Columbus & Cleveland, Ohio. (Click on links ABOVE to see individual tours.)
        My pile of interviews on videotape is steadily growing as I find ever more Cadettes around the country. I've also been gathering memorabilia, drafting tools, photos, blueprints, and other personal items from their years as aeronautical engineering students and then as working engineers in the airframe and propeller plants of Curtiss-Wright in St. Louis (MO), Buffalo (NY), Columbus (OH). and Caldwell (NJ).

 My plan is to assemble these materials into a traveling exhibit & find them a permanent home.
I'm also weighing options for a film/video.

"Please help me 
honor the Cadettes with a 
Permanent Exhibit and/or Film!"

And while you're here, please enjoy the site! A great many Cadettes are pictured on the tour pages above.

Center photo in top menu: International Women's Air and Space Museum (IWASM) in Cleveland, Ohio. 
L to R: Wanda Nelcamp Hare (Purdue '43), Mary Louise Converse Stamm (Iowa State '43), 
Lucy Jacobs Lodge (U of Minnesota '43), Judy Neumann Miller (Purdue '45).
Photo credit: Heather Alexander