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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]
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.
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.
[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.
She one of the earliest female aviators, and was thought to be one of only 56 female pilots in the world in 1927. [3] [4] She held the record for longest flight by a female pilot with a passenger for a flight in 1922. [5] [6] [7] [1] She was also the first woman to fly across the English Channel with a passenger.
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 ]
Nancy Bird Walton (1915–2009), pioneering Australian aviator who founded the Australian Women Pilots' Association; Zheng Wang (Julie Wang, Wang Zheng, 王争) (born 1972), first Asian woman to circumnavigate Earth in an airplane, first Chinese person to fly solo around-the-world; first Chinese female pilot to fly around the world [74] [75] [76]
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 ...