women into the workplace easier, but it would be many more years before anything close to equality would be achieved. That’s just the way it was and everyone knew it. Everyone except David and Myrtle Skelton, Betty’s parents.
    Betty credits them with instilling in her a firm belief that there was nothing she couldn’t do if she set her mind to it. Thus, as a small child, Betty became fascinated with the U.S. Navy N3N Stearmans soaring overhead as pilots practiced their maneuvers over her home in Pensacola, Florida. The seeds of ambition planted by those Stearmans would blossom into fruition a few years later as Betty developed into perhaps the greatest aerobatic aviatrix the world has ever known.
    Her first flying experience came