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Flying Nun in a B-52
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The real flying nun, Sister Mary Aquinas Kinskey, O.S.F., in a B-52 simulator with Major Ralph M. Hanson. Sister Mary Aquinas was fulfilling her dream of flying a jet plane. The sister, whose Franciscan motherhouse was in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, learned to fly during World War II in order to teach her students. Later she was involved with pre-flight instruction for the military, and after the war she continued to fly. Sister Mary Aquinas introduced aviation into the science curriculum of various schools in Wisconsin and elsewhere.
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Sheboygan Airport and Flying Nun
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Autobiographical reminiscences of Sister Mary Aquinas
August 22, 1969
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Publicity Still from "The Flying Nun"
August 17, 1967
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Interview with Dorothy Mosher, June 29, 1993
June 29, 1993
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Cochrane and ATA Pilots
1941
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