Object Details
- Pilot
- Jerrie Cobb
- Physical Description
- Mulitcolored, woven cotton, fabric hammock with braided rope (nylon and cotton) attached for hanging purposes.
- Summary
- In 1963, at age 32, Jerrie Cobb stunned family and friends by becoming a missionary in South America. For more than 50 years,the record-setting pilot and former corporate executive transported supplies and medicine to the people of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil. Cobb pioneered air routes and shared her faith.
- Cobb slept in this cotton hammock that she tied to the wing of her plane. Indigenous people tied theirs to tree branches.
- Many indigenous, isolated tribes in the world’s largest rainforest had died out
- from lack of food and medicine. Cobb used the power of general aviation to reach and serve remote populations.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Warren Family
- Inventory Number
- A20200256000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT
- Materials
- Organic Fiber Fabric (Cotton)
- Synthetic Fiber Fabric (Nylon)
- Dyes
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 280.7 × 127cm, 1.5kg (9 ft. 2 1/2 in. × 4 ft. 2 in., 3.2lb.)
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Thomas W. Haas We All Fly
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20200256000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9bdca0b18-77bf-48de-b2e1-e55c33181092
