Jacqueline Auriol

Jacqueline Marie-Thérèse Suzanne Auriol (; ; 5 November 1917 – 11 February 2000) was a French aviator who set several world speed records.

Biography

Born in Challans, Vendée, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, Edmond Pierre Douet, she graduated from the University of Nantes then she studied art at the École du Louvre in Paris.

12 May 1951 - Auriol set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale- (FAI-) ratified average speed of over a 100-km (62.1-mile) closed circuit in a Lockheed F-104G Starfighter.

Honours She was awarded four Harmon Trophies in 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1956. She was made Grand officier (Grand officer) of the Légion d'honneur. She was made grand-croix (Grand cross) of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1997. Honored as an Eagle in 1992. On 23 June 2003, France issued a €4.00 postage stamp in her honor. Named an honorary fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots