Can women really fly? There are many readings that easily fit the long history of atomic weaponry, but the one article that stood out in terms of context would be Joseph J. Corn's article Making Flying "Thinkable": Women Pilots and the sale of aviation Unlike other readings, such as that of Bush and Rentezi, Corn's article is more about aviation than the atom. The main point of Corn's article is that. women were extremely important in terms of aviation and that without their participation, aviation would not be what it is today This main point is expressed by a quote from Corn in the last paragraph of the article,. “Women pilots of the late 1920s and 1930s were the first to make the skies friendly and hospitable” (Joseph J. Corn, Making Flying “Thinkable”: Women Pilots and the Selling of Aviation, 1979, p. 571). This main point is then strongly represented by primary sources indicating what women did in terms of selling aviation to the general public, fighting against female discrimination and how they gave up their status. aviators to play a more feminist role, in order to allow aviation to develop. These primary sources make the main point very effective in showing the audience the importance of women in aviation because the audience can see what the world of aviation was like before and after women were involved. In Corn's article, he expresses three central points in his article to help support his main point: these points being how aviation was before women's involvement, how the world of aviation changed with the involvement of women, and finally the sacrifices of women to make aviation what it is today. In Joseph Corn's first point, to support his main point, he expresses how B.C. ..... middle of document ...... never existed or is difficult to find. Corn's three arguments really help the reader see that women really did play a key role in the growing use of aviation. Corn divides the article into three distinct points in which the audience sees what aviation was like before the female interaction, during the female interaction, and after. He then presents the reader with a long list of primary sources, mostly from magazines and aviators, to help convince the audience that his main argument is valid. For the most part, the only weakness in Corn's article is its lack of numerical evidence that female aviators contributed to the development of aviation and that some of Corn's primary sources come from anonymous individuals. But looking beyond that, we can see that Corn makes a compelling argument in representing women's participation in the world of aviation in the late 1920s and 1930.