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Victoria Louise Van Meter (March 13, 1982 – March 15, 2008 [1]) was an American aviator.She was known for setting several distance-flying records for child pilots. At the age of 11, she became the youngest pilot to fly east to west across the continental United States of America, and the youngest female pilot to cross in either direction.
Kara S. Hultgreen [1] (October 5, 1965 – October 25, 1994) was an American naval aviator who served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy and was the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She was also the first female fighter pilot in the U.S. military to die in a crash. [2]
The female passenger, who hasn't been identified, apparently erupted into the expletive-laden tirade as the flight was getting ready to take-off from San Diego en route to Las Vegas, according to ...
Candalyn "Candi" Kubeck (née Chamberlin, May 10, 1961 – May 11, 1996) was an American commercial airline pilot and the captain of ValuJet Flight 592.This flight crashed into the Everglades in 1996, after oxygen generators illegally placed inside a cargo hold, which started and maintained a fire that disrupted aircraft functionality and flooded the entire cabin and cockpit with smoke.
Aviation is a male-dominated industry. Here's what it's like to be a female pilot for the U.S. carrier with the highest percentage of female pilots.
Lynn Rippelmeyer started out as a flight attendant in 1972. A few years later, she was part of a record-breaking all-female crew and became the first woman to pilot a 747.
Nicole Malachowski was born Nicole Ellingwood in Santa Maria, California, to Cathy and Robert Ellingwood. [11] In high school, she was a cadet member of the Nevada Wing of the Civil Air Patrol [12] and participated in AFJROTC, where she was rated cadet colonel, the highest rank a cadet could achieve.
Clark in the Beechcraft T-34 "Free Spirit" at Nellis Air Force Base in 2019 Clark's North American T-28 "Top Banana" N128JC, which she flew at airshows for over 20 years. Clark has more than 50 years of flight experience, 41 years as a solo aerobatic-air show pilot as of October 19, 2019, [2] and 37,000 flight hours.