Women's Air Derby

[8] Marvel Crosson died in a crash apparently caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, but fifteen completed the race in Cleveland, Ohio, nine days later.

(Ironically, Henderson would ban women from competing in the 1934 Bendix Trophy and National Air Races after a crash which claimed the life of pilot Florence Klingensmith in 1933.)

Opal Kunz's 300-horsepower Travel Air was deemed to be "too fast for a woman to fly" (even though she owned and flew it), so she had to find a less powerful aircraft to race.

[14] Later, "when Amelia damaged her propeller on the first leg of the journey, the race was held up until she could get it repaired," much to the annoyance of Pancho Barnes, who received no such consideration when she later crashed in Pecos, Texas.

[17] (In the 2010 documentary Breaking Through the Clouds: The First Women's National Air Derby, Noyes, a non-smoker, explained that she found a cigarette butt in her baggage compartment.

The book The Powder Puff Derby of 1929: The First All Women's Transcontinental Air Race, written by Gene Nora Jessen, was published in 2002.

The 2019 book by Steve Sheinkin, Born to Fly: the first women's air race across America, was written for a young adult audience.

From left to right: Louise Thaden , Bobbi Trout , Patty Willis , Marvel Crosson , Blanche Noyes , Vera Dawn Walker , Amelia Earhart , Marjorie Crawford , Ruth Elder , and Pancho Barnes , [ 1 ] in front of NC229K, de Havilland DH.60 Moth (c/n 41); [ 2 ] at the Breakfast Club, [ 3 ] Los Angeles, California, before the start of the race [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Pancho Barnes (fourth from the left) [ 6 ] and the Powder Puff Derby at Long Beach, California [ 7 ]