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Filmmaker wins Aviation Hall award

By Terry Morris | Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 09:22 AM

Heather Taylor, who directed and produced the documentary “Breaking Through the Clouds: The First Women’s National Air Derby,” is the winner of the National Aviation Hall of Fame’s ninth annual Combs Gates Award.

She will receive the prize, which includes a $20,000 cash award, Oct. 11 during a special opening session of the National Business Aviation Association’s 64th annual meeting and convention in Las Vegas.

The Dayton-based NAHF is located in the Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Presenters will be NAHF president Philip A. Roberts, former astronaut Eugene Cernan, aviation pioneer and cinematographer Clay Lacy and air show legends Bob Hoover and Sean D. Tucker.

“Breaking Through the Clouds” documents the first women’s national air derby, a nine-day race from Santa Monica to Cleveland in 1929. Competitors included Amelia Earhart.

Taylor, of Columbia, Md., spent 13 years researching, writing and making it. For more information about it, go to www.breakingthroughtheclouds.com.

Named for late aviation pioneers, businessmen and historians Harry Combs and Charles C. Gates, the award pays homage go aviation study and preservation. More details are available at www.nationalaviation.org.

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