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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]
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.
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]
[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.
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 ]
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.
In another publicity stunt on May 6, 1916, Stinson flew her plane in a race with Dario Resta, the 1916 Indianapolis 500 champion. In 1917, when the United States entered World War I, and the military had a shortage of pilots, Katherine and fellow female aviator Ruth Law volunteered to fly for the military, but were refused. [15]
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 ...