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In 1948, Ada Rogato, Brazil's first licensed woman pilot, became the first female agricultural pilot when she was hired by the government to crop dust coffee fields and eliminate the borer beetle that was plaguing the crop.
Dulcibella Evangeline Clifford (1894-1960) also known as Mrs. Oliver Atkey was a famous British female pilot [1] and the first woman to receive a British pilot's license after WWI. [2] 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]
Bonnie Tiburzi (born 1948), first female pilot for American Airlines and the first female pilot for a major American commercial airline. Bobbi Trout (1906–2003), set endurance records and was the first woman to fly all night [68] [69]
Bonnie Tiburzi is the first female pilot for American Airlines and the first female pilot for a major American commercial airline, [152] as well as the first woman in the world to earn a Flight Engineer rating on a turbo-jet aircraft. [153] The United States Navy allows women to train as pilots. [154]
Whirly-Girls, International Women Helicopter Pilots 1998 Edna Gardner Whyte (1902–1992) 1992 Sheila Widnall (1938–) 1996 Betty Jane Williams (1919–2008) 2006 Janet C. Wolfenbarger (1958–) 2016 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) 1993 Women's Section of the Air Transport Auxiliary: 2008 Jessie E. Woods (1909–2001) 1994 Mary Anna ...
Mawuli pilots as a volunteer with Medicine on the Move, an organization that works together with the Aviation Academy to transport doctors, deliver medical supplies and services, as well as health education to rural communities across the length and breadth of Ghana. She occasionally dropped. educational pamphlets over remote villages. [3]
In 1943 they achieved pay parity with male pilots. Before that they had routinely been paid only 80% of the male wage. [20] The British Library holds a recording of Gower talking about her flying experiences over Kent during a night flight as well as her opinions of women being pilots. [21] Gower received a Harmon Trophy award posthumously in ...
May Bradford welding part of the all Australian monoplane for the England-Australia air race, 1934. May Gertrude Shepherd (née Bradford), (1897 - 24 January 1937) was an Australian aviator and the first woman in Australia to hold first class pilot's 'A', 'B' and 'C' licences concurrently, in addition to a 'D' electrical ground engineers' certificate.