WASHINGTON EXAMINER - Early female pilot Evelyn Bryan Johnson dies, 102, May 13, 2012

"MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (AP) — Pioneering female pilot and Guinness world record holder Evelyn Bryan Johnson, known as "Mama Bird," died Thursday, according to a funeral home. She was 102.
Bryan started flying in 1944 and went on to run her own flying service and manage a small-town airport. The Farrar Funeral Home in Jefferson City said the Morristown resident died Thursday.
"I don't care how many problems you have down on the ground, you forget about them (while flying)," the bright-eyed and barely 5-foot-tall woman known to her students and colleagues as Mama Bird or Miss Evelyn told The Associated Press in 2005."
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