{"id":3953,"date":"2020-03-09T12:48:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T16:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitnaha.com\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2021-04-19T22:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T02:43:39","slug":"the-fascinating-story-of-hattie-meyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitnaha.com\/the-fascinating-story-of-hattie-meyers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fascinating Story of Hattie Meyers"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Weaver Aircraft Company (WACO) was formed by Buck Weaver, Clayton Bruckner, and Sam Junkin. Aviatrix Hattie Meyers was married to two of them, but it was after their deaths that she got her own aviation start.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd when the vivacious Mrs. R. S. Barnaby walked across the field in her spiffy white flying suit the dear old lady in the parked car remarked: \u2018First it was short dresses, then shorter dresses, after that they started wearing pajamas on the street and now I see they are going in for plain pants. It won\u2019t be long before the men will be wearing corset covers in self defense\u2019.\u201d – 1931 newspaper article about Hattie Meyers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The history of WACO and Hattie Meyers is intertwined throughout the decades during and after World War I. After the early deaths of her first two husbands, Buck Weaver and Sam Junkin, Hattie moved to Washington D.C. in 1929 with her third husband, naval aviator Ralph Barnaby.<\/p>\n
In Washington D.C., Hattie met well-known flyer Betty Gillies. Later in her flying career, Betty would be the first pilot to qualify for the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (later WASPs), and would become president of The Ninety-Nines from 1939-1941.<\/p>\n