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Tangela Tricoli
12+ albums
folkoutsidersinger-songwritertwee pop1982
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Tangela Tricoli (real name Angela Masson) was the first woman to be type-rated on the Boeing 747 on June 30, 1984. Masson began flying lessons at age 15 at Clover Field in Santa Monica, California. Shortly after getting her pilots license, she started air racing. At age 21 while flying in the Powder Puff Derby she set a record as the youngest person to fly coast to coast in a high performance aircraft. In 1971 she trained armed forces pilot cadets at fellow aviatrix Claire Walters Flight School to build her flight experience, getting over 1,000 flight hours in less than a year. She then went on to fly as a charter pilot for Express Airways out of LeMoore NAS on a civilian contract for the Navy. Frustrated to see her former male students flying jets while females were barred from the military, she went back to school. At age 24, she wrote her PhD dissertation "Elements of Organizational Discrimination: The Air Force Response to Women as Military Pilots," which was presented before Congress during the Hearings about opening military the Academies to women (a copy can be found in the Congressional Records). Her paper was read by Robert Crandall, then President of American Airlines, who hired her as a pilot for American in 1976, at age 25. During her career there, she was the first woman to fly as First Officer on the Boeing 707, 767 and DC-10. Masson earned aircraft type-ratings on the A-310, B-747, B757, B767, B777, DC-9, DC-10, and MD-11. She holds the ATP license with comm
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Jet Lady
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Garageaholic, Psychedelic Outsider Music!
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Songs In The Key Of Z Vol. 2: The Curious Universe Of Outsider Music
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Songs In The Key Of Z Vols 1 & 2
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Songs in the Key of Z Vol. 2
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Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music Vol.2
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Songs In The Key Of Z Volume 2
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Songs in the Key of Z, Vol. 2
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Songs In The Key Of Z - Vol.2
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Garageaholic! Psychedelic! Outsider Music!
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Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music, Vol.2
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Songs in the Key of Z- Vol. 2