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  2. The Ninety-Nines Museum of Women Pilots - Wikipedia

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    The Ninety-Nines Museum of Women Pilots (MWP) is a non-profit museum and research institute that seeks to preserve the unique history of women in aviation.It is located on the second story [2] of the international headquarters building of the non-profit International Organization of Women Pilots: The Ninety-Nines ("99s") on the grounds of Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

  3. Ninety-Nines - Wikipedia

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    The Ninety-Nines: International Organization of Women Pilots, also known as The 99s, is an international organization that provides networking, mentoring, and flight scholarship opportunities to recreational and professional female pilots. Founded in 1929, the Ninety-Nines has 153 chapters and 27 regional 'sections' across the globe as of 2022 ...

  4. List of aviation museums - Wikipedia

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    Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs; Planes of ... Ninety-Nines Museum of Women Pilots, ... North Cascades Vintage Aircraft Museum, Concrete – closed [90] Olympic ...

  5. International Women's Air & Space Museum - Wikipedia

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    The museum began as a committee of the Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots, that sought to collect historical artifacts and memorabilia of women pilots. In 1986, the International Women's Air & Space Museum opened in Centerville, Ohio, in the former home of one of the Wright brothers' uncles. Bernice Steadman, an aviator and member of ...

  6. List of women aviators - Wikipedia

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    Willa Brown, the first African-American woman to receive a commission as a lieutenant in the U.S. Civil Air Patrol. Pancho Barnes (1901–1975), granddaughter of balloonist Thaddeus Lowe; founded the Women's Air Reserve, Associated Motion Picture Pilots and became the "mother of the Air Force" [4] [5]

  7. 35 Fascinating Facts About Women's History Month - AOL

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    9. Marie Curie was the first person (and only woman) to receive two Nobel prizes. Curie was a scientist whose research on radioactivity led her to discover two new elements. She also researched ...

  8. On 9/11, this fighter pilot was sent on a kamikaze mission to ...

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    She's a fighter pilot; I'm a fighter pilot." Heather Penney planned to aim for the Boeing 757's tail while Col. Marc Sasseville would go for the cockpit, she told the Post.

  9. Women in aviation - Wikipedia

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    Louise Sacchi was the first international woman ferry pilot who flew planes across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans over 340 times, more than any other non-airline pilot. [192] In 1971, she set a women's speed record by flying a single-engine land plane from New York to London in 17 hours and 10 minutes, a record that still stands today.