Suzanne Asbury-Oliver Featured in Book

Stars of the Sky Legends All Book

Suzanne Asbury-Oliver, the world’s only active professional female skywriter, is one of 50 women in featured in STARS OF THE SKY, Legends All: Illustrated Histories of Women Aviation Pioneers, a collection of profiles of women who have made their mark in aviation. The illustrated book by writer Ann Cooper and aviation artist Sharon Rajnus also introduces readers to many aviation firsts, including the first black female aviator and first female aircraft designer.

Piloting the Oregon Aero® SkyDancer, a specially modified 1956 de Havilland Chipmunk, Suzanne is at home with these accomplished women. Her skywriting, a nearly lost aviation technique, is carefully choreographed flying, featuring precise turns, exact headings and perfect timing. The result is a head-turning phenomenon that takes spectators by pleasant surprise.

The stories in STARS OF THE SKY, Legends All capture the strengths of amazing women like Suzanne, women passionate about aviation and about living lives of challenge and excitement. Other women include a flight surgeon, Eskimo bush pilot, air traffic controller, record setter, racer and test pilot. Additional profiled “firsts” include the first woman to fly solo around the world, the first female airline manager and the first female Thunderbolt pilot. Ann Cooper has a varied background in aviation, business, writing, and the military. Ann is a certified flight instructor and has written five other books and more than 700 magazine articles. She lives in Dayton, Ohio.

Sharon Rajnus has been an artist and pilot for more than 30 years. A resident of Malin, Oregon with her pilot husband Donald, Sharon is a member of the Crater Lake Ninety-Nines and personally lives the life of a woman in aviation.