Well-mannered women were not supposed to engage in the daring and dangerous pursuit of aviation when a journalist named Harriet Quimby talked her editor into paying for her flying lessons in 1911.
For the first time, a United pilot has reached a position that has never before been held by a woman, marking a long-term trend for female aviators. A United Airlines 787-9 Dreamliner. A United ...
In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin pushed to demonstrate its technical prowess to the rest of the world, ...
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A local pilot is working to change the face of aviation by mentoring the next generation of female pilots and she says the mission is personal. Women have been flying for more than ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Amelia Earhart remains the most famous female pilot in aviation history. A trailblazer, she had a strong connection to Tucson and Southern Arizona. In 1937, as she prepared to ...
Describes the lives and accomplishments of six famous women aviators: Harriet Quimby, Bessie Coleman, Amelia Earhart, Beryl Markham, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and ...
Astles, the first and only woman to compete in the Red Bull Air Race and the first female pilot to win a Red Bull Air Race event (Challenger Class, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 2017), will perform an ...