Hugh Armstrong Robinson - Skelley, Billie Holladay
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Children's Biography: A remarkable engineer, inventor, and pilot, Hugh Armstrong Robinson performed many first-flight feats and was one of the most successful aviators of his time. His concept for quickly decelerating a plane by catching a cable was so successful it is still used today. Robinson devoted his life to advancing the field of aviation and to making the dream of human flight a reality.

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Children's Biography: A remarkable engineer, inventor, and pilot, Hugh Armstrong Robinson performed many first-flight feats and was one of the most successful aviators of his time. His concept for quickly decelerating a plane by catching a cable was so successful it is still used today. Robinson devoted his life to advancing the field of aviation and to making the dream of human flight a reality.
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Billie Holladay Skelley, a Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best of the Net nominee, received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Now retired from working as a cardiovascular and thoracic surgery clinical nurse specialist and nursing educator, she enjoys focusing on her writing. Billie has written several health-related articles for both professional and lay journals, but her writing crosses several different genres and has appeared in various journals, magazines, and anthologies in print and online--ranging from the American Journal of Nursing to Chicken Soup for the Soul. An award-winning author, she has written twelve books for children and teens. Her book, Ruth Law: The Queen of the Air, was selected to receive the 2021 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Children's Literature Award.