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LONDONDERRY —The Aviation Museum of New Hampshire will host the film "The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club" on Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. The movie chronicles the life of Florence ...

Movie"Award-winning documentary about one of the most colorful women pilots of the early 20th century" ...

The author just discovered a Pancho’s Happy Bottom Riding Club T-shirt he had stored away from his stint at Edwards Air Force Base — never worn. Norvin C. Evans Those of us in flight test at ...

Eugene “Mac” McKendry who, with his late wife, aviator Pancho Barnes, once operated the irreverent Happy Bottom Riding Club, which was dubbed by Chuck Yeager “the test pilots’ clubhouse and playroom,” ...

While making the long drive through California’s dusty Mojave Desert, I could not help but remember the more or less respectable “Happy Bottom Riding Club” located near here and its feisty and ...

What did she know of the legendary “aviatrixes?” Of the infamous “Happy Bottom Riding Club?” Of the audacity of breaking Amelia Earhart’s speed record, running guns in banana boats, trekking overland ...

According to George B. Welsh, director of the Flight Test Museum at Edwards AFB, “not only was Pancho Barnes a great aviator, one of a kind at that time. She was kind and considerate. The type of ...

A charismatic figure immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff, Florence ‘Pancho’ Barnes was one of the most important women in 20th Century aviation. A tough and fearless pilot, Pancho flew on ...