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The first real race for female pilots was the Women's Air Derby during the 1929 National Air Races and Aeronautical Exposition. Air-race promoter Cliff Henderson was the founder of the first Women's Air Derby, which he patterned after the men's transcontinental air races.
Mary Barr (1925–2010), first female pilot to join the US Forest Service and become National Aviation Safety Officer [6] Jean Batten (1909–1982), made first solo flight from United Kingdom to New Zealand in the 1930s; Ann Baumgartner (1918–2008), test pilot; first American woman to fly a U.S. Army Air Forces jet aircraft (a Bell YP-59A jet ...
By 1930, there were around 200 women pilots in the U.S., but within five years there were more than 700. [4] Women of Aviation Worldwide Week has reported that after 1980, the increase in gender parity among pilots in the United States has been stagnant. [5] The global percentage of women airline pilots is 3%.
This was also the year for the first female pylon race, the winner of which was awarded the Aerol Trophy beginning in 1931. [4]: 78–79, 99 [1] In Chicago, on the last day of the 1930 trophy race (September 1), USMC Captain Arthur Page crashed his modified Curtiss Hawk Seaplane F6C-3, and died of his injuries later that day.
In 1922, she performed her first stunt involving an airplane when she and her sister performed an airplane parachute race jumping from separate planes. [3] Gladys Ingle is preparing to move from Bon MacDougall's Jenny to Art Goebel's aircraft mid-air. Gladys Ingle became the only female member of the 13 Black Cats. [1]
During the 1930s, while working for Fairchild and other aviation companies, Nichols made several record-setting flights, most of them in a Lockheed Electra, the New Cincinnati, on open loan from millionaire radio industrialist Powel Crosley Jr. [2] In December 1930, she beat Charles Lindbergh's record time for a cross-country flight, completing ...
Betty Skelton Frankman Erde (June 28, 1926 – August 31, 2011) was a land speed record holder and aerobatics pilot who set 17 aviation and automobile records. [1] She was known as "The First Lady of Firsts", [2] and helped create opportunities for women in aviation, auto racing, astronautics, and advertising.