Flying Joyfully

Polly Usher’s story is one that began in 1937 as a licensed instructor operating an airport followed by serving our nation in the 1940s by training some of our World War II flight cadets. Following the war, Polly continued her passion for flight by flying film crews to view set locations throughout the west. An early aviatrix, who quietly achieved much, at a time when women did not, Polly’s memoirs are filled with her personal remembrances of those early days of flight and her love for aviation. To this day, that passion has not waned! It was an honor to have added Polly Usher’s name to the National Aviation and Space Exploration Wall of Honor, where her personal story and contribution to flight will forever be preserved.