This documentary is about Cornelia Fort, one of the first three members of the WAFS (Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron) formed in 1942. Cornelia was the first woman pilot to die in service to her country (1943).
The documentary reviews event in history around the dawn of aviation, when the WWII generation was born and the dramatic expansion of flight, engineering and production of airplanes in the first decades of the 20th century.