An airplane doesn't respond to gender. It only responds to skill." - BETTY JANE WILLIAMS Betty Jane sat in the den of her Woodland Hills home praying for another couple of years, the last time I saw her. "Dear Lord, please don't take me until I clean up that back room," the 86-year-old retired Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel was saying. The Lord listened. He gave Betty Jane almost three more years to clean up that back room filled with her flying service medals and commendations, thousands of black and white photographs and dozens of yellowed newspaper stories of heroism,...