Brooke Knapp
Brooke Knapp | |
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| Born | Nancy Brooke 1940 (age 83–84) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Known for | Setting or breaking more than 100 world aviation speed records |
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Nancy Brooke Knapp (born 1940) is an
Realtor, who set or broke more than 100 world aviation speed records including the fastest speed around the world in a civilian jet aircraft in a Gulfstream III
.
Biography
Knapp graduated from Winter Haven (Florida) High School in 1958 under her birth name of Nancy Brooke. Knapp graduated summa cum laude from University of California, Los Angeles.
When she married Charlie Knapp, she was a white-knuckle flyer before he gave her flying lessons. On her 1984 Flight for World's Children, she flew through the
Paul Tissandier Diploma from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale[2] and the 1984 Harmon Trophy.[3]
As of 2008[update] Knapp was a licensed Realtor with Sotheby's International Realty. She served on the Board of Directors of MyJets, Inc. Previously, she founded and operated her own company, Jet Airways, Inc. She received the 2008 Los Angeles Business Journal Community Service Award.[4]
References
- ISBN 1-57488-448-4.
- ^ Tissander Diploma Archived December 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ National Air and Space Museum Archived 2008-04-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ISSN 0194-2603.