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Aviatrix Jackie Cochran is the most fascinating woman you’ve never heard of Cochran ‘was a huge force in aviation,’ space historian and author Amy Shira-Teitel says Updated:  Tags:  Jacqueline Cochran was a record-breaking aviatrix, entrepreneur and political mover and shaker who was close enough with President Lyndon B. Johnson that he refused to let her call him Mr. President. Yet Cochran’s legacy as the first woman to break the sound barrier in 1953 and her role in the Mercury 13 women astronaut testing program rarely gets a mention. “I can’t believe I never heard of her,” ...