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Robyn Clay-Williams, one of the first two female pilots in the Royal Australian Air Force and the service's first female test pilot; Jerrie Cobb (1931–2019), first woman to fly in the Paris Air Show and to be tested as an astronaut [18] [19] Jacqueline Cochran (1908–1980), first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound [20]
Michelle Gooris, also known as DutchPilotGirl, is a Dutch airline pilot known for documenting the life of a pilot and promoting learning to fly. [1] She seeks to dispel the misconceptions of becoming a pilot as well as showing a cockpits view of the world. [1] Gooris was initially aimed at a medical career going to medical school. [3]
[a] She was hired in 1976 by American Airlines as their third female pilot. [2] In 1986, Bass became the first female captain of a commercial plane at American Airlines [3] and later that year she captained the first all-female crew in the history of commercial jet aviation, on an American Airlines flight from Washington D.C. to Dallas, Texas.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying warplanes for the military — to comply with the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Hélène Dutrieu of Belgium is the first woman to pilot a real solo flight in an airplane. Raymonde de Laroche is the first French woman to pilot a solo flight in an airplane, she hops just over 300 meters. [12] 10 February 1909 Aéroclub féminin la Stella, the first aero club for women, is formed in Paris by Marie Surcouf.
Women eventually began to enter U.S. major commercial aviation in the 1970s and 1980s, with 1973 seeing the first female pilot at a major U.S. airline, American Airlines. American also promoted the first female captain of a major U.S. airline in 1986 and the following year had the first all-woman flight crew. [ 188 ]
Completing a transcontinental flight across the United States. Kimberly Ndidi Anyadike (born February 1, 1994) is an American pilot from Compton, California . In 2009, at the age of 15, she became the youngest African American woman to complete a transcontinental flight across the United States, from Los Angeles, California to Newport News ...
Curran was the only female pilot flying with the squadron when she served, and the fifth female pilot in the squadron overall. [7] [2] Curran has logged over 1,500 total flight hours with the USAF. [4] She served in Afghanistan for two months in 2016 as part of both Operation Freedom's Sentinel and Operation Resolute Support, acquiring 163 ...