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Joanna Mary Salter MBE (born 27 August 1968, in Bournemouth) is a former Royal Air Force pilot, and was Britain's first female fast jet pilot flying the Panavia Tornado ground attack aircraft with 617 Squadron. She later became an inspirational speaker. [1]
Alongside fellow female pilot Sally Cox, Gibson took her first solo flights in 1990 at RAF Linton-on-Ouse. [2] She successfully applied for pilot training, going on to train in the Advanced Flying Training Wing. She graduated as the first female pilot in the RAF on 14 June 1991 at No. 6 Flying Training School RAF, within RAF Finningley.
Roberta Cowell attended Whitgift School, a boys' public school in Croydon and was an enthusiastic member of the school's Motor Club, along with John Cunningham, who would later be famous as an RAF night fighter ace and test pilot. [Note 1] Towards the end of her school days, she visited Belgium, Germany, and Austria with a school friend.
Willis became a First Officer when she joined up on 1 September 1941. [4] She left Air Transport Auxiliary on 3 August 1943, a year after flying her first Spitfire because she was pregnant. [5] She went on to have a total of four children. In 1949 she was commissioned into the Women's RAF Volunteer Reserve (WRAFVR), as a Pilot Officer. During ...
Eileen Collins (born 1956), former test pilot and NASA astronaut; first female pilot and first female commander of a space shuttle; Linda Corbould, first woman to command a Royal Australian Air Force flying squadron; Nancy Corrigan (1912–1983), an Irish-born, early U.S. aviator who became a successful instructor and commercial pilot
PHOTO: U.S. Air Force Gen. James Hecker, U.S. Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa commander, awards Capt. Lacie Hester, 494th Fighter Squadron F-15E weapon systems officer, with the Silver ...
In September 1949 Bird was commissioned into the Women's RAF Volunteer Reserve (WRAFVR), as a Pilot Officer, as were a number of the ATA women pilots. During their 5-year commissions, several women took up the opportunity to become fully qualified RAF pilots and Bird duly became the first woman ever to wear the flying badge of an RAF Pilot: the ...
She became the world's first female fighter pilot, [1] [4] [5] at age 23. [ 6 ] [ a ] As an orphan , [ 12 ] she was one of the nine children adopted by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk . She is recognized as the first female combat pilot by The Guinness Book of World Records [ 1 ] and was selected as the only female pilot for the poster of " The 20 ...