Breaking Through the Clouds: The First Women's National Air Derby (2010) | Full Cast

Heather Taylor

DIRECTOR

Cheryl Baker

Self - Aviation Historian

Florence 'Pancho' Barnes

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Margaret Whitman Blair

Self - Author: 'The Roaring Twenty'

Terry Carbonell

Self - Air Racer with Team Wild Mama

Julie Clark

Self - Airshow Pilot

Dorothy Cochrane

Self - Curator, National Air & Space Museum

Marvel Crosson

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Louis D'Elia

Self - Custodian, Pancho Barnes Trust Estate

Susan Dusenbury

Self - Piloted Louise Thaden's 'Travel Air' in 1989 Recreation of the 1929 Women's National Air Derby Race

Amelia Earhart

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Ruth Elder

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Claire Mae Fahy

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Edith Foltz

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Mary Haizlip

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Monica Hoffman

Self - Recreation Actress

Andrew King

Self - Vintage Aviation Consultant

Opal Kunz

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Jessie Miller

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Molly Moores

Self - Narrator (voice)

Ruth Nichols

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Blanche W. Noyes

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Gladys O'Donnell

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Phoebe Omlie

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Neva Paris

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Margaret Perry

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Thea Rasche

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Gabrielle C Rivera

Self

Will Rogers

Self - Comedian (archiveFootage)

Barbara Schultz

Self - Author, 'Pancho: The Biography of Florence Pancho Barnes

Janann Sherman

Self - Author, 'Walking on Air: The Aerial Adventures of Phoebe Omlie'

Elinor Smith

Self - Contributor and Legendary Pilot

Patrick Sullivan

Self - Son of Elinor Smith Sullivan

Louise Thaden

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Bobbi Trout

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Hazel Trout

Self - Sister-in-Law of Bobbi Trout

Mary E. von Mach

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Patty Wagstaff

Self - National Aerobatic Champion

Vera Dawn Walker

Self - Pilot Contestant, 1929 National Women's Air Derby (archiveFootage)

Pat Thaden Webb

Self - Daughter of Louise Thaden

Matt Witkowski

Self - Voice of Walter Herschel Beech (voice)