Pancho Barnes

One of the most famous and colorful female aviators in history, Pancho Barnes was a legend of her time and a huge part of the lineage of famous pilots from Edwards Air Force Base. Here’s a trailer from the film that bears her name.

Winner of an Emmy and numerous film festival awards, "The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club" profiles one of aviation's toughest and most notorious women, Florence "Pancho" Barnes. A rival of Amelia Earhart's, Barnes was one of the most colorful and accomplished women pilots of the earliest 20th Century, and an ill-behaved woman who made history.