About Louise Thaden
Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden was an American aviation pioneer, holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix trophy, alongside Blanche Noyes. She was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Historical Society's Hall of Fame in 1980. McPhetridge met Herbert von Thaden, who was a United States Army Signal Corps pilot and engineer who worked on developing the first American all-metal aircraft, the Thaden T-2. Thaden rapidly became a major figure in the aviation world and set many world performance records and won many major flying events. Thaden set the women's altitude record in December 1928 with a mark of 20,260 feet.
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