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These pilots leaving their ship at the four-engine school at Lockbourne are members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS), trained to ferry the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, c. 1944. This is a timeline of women in aviation which describes many of the firsts and achievements of women as pilots and other roles in aviation .
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 ]
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.
Captain Theresa Claiborne flew military jets before becoming a commercial pilot for United Airlines. Now after 43 years, she’s hanging up her pilot’s wings. She was the first Black woman to ...
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.
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.
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]
In 1973, at age 24, she became the first female pilot for American Airlines and the first female pilot for a major American commercial airline. [1] She flew as a Captain on the Boeing 727, Boeing 757 and the Boeing 767. In 1986 Tiburzi wrote her autobiography, Takeoff: The Story of America's First Woman Pilot for a Major Airline. [3]