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Touria Chaoui (1936–1959), first female pilot in Morocco at sixteen years old [16] Katherine Cheung (1904–2003), first Chinese-American woman to get a pilot's license [17] Robyn Clay-Williams, one of the first two female pilots in the Royal Australian Air Force and the service's first female test pilot
Bonnie Tiburzi is the first female pilot for American Airlines and the first female pilot for a major American commercial airline, [151] as well as the first woman in the world to earn a Flight Engineer rating on a turbo-jet aircraft. [152] The United States Navy allows women to train as pilots. [153]
Bessie Coleman took a French-language class at the Berlitz Language Schools in Chicago and then traveled to Paris, France, on November 20, 1920, so that she could earn her pilot license. She learned to fly in a Nieuport 564 biplane with "a steering system that consisted of a vertical stick the thickness of a baseball bat in front of the pilot ...
Omlie was the first woman to receive an airplane mechanic's license, the first licensed female transport pilot, and the first woman to be appointed to a federal position in the aviation field. [2] During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Omlie set several world records in aviation, including the highest altitude parachute jump by a woman.
Dall'Acqua, Joyce (March 23, 1986). "Women Pilots Built Their Careers on Fear of Flying: Companies Hired Them to Prove Safety of Air Travel". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. "p. 1". Archived from the original on 2016-12-02 "p. 2". Archived from the original on 2016-12-02
Gwendolyne Elizabeth Cowart was born in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1920, the daughter of James Monroe Cowart and Louie Leonie Lester Cowart. [2] Her father was a locomotive engineer; her parents were divorced in 1928. [3] She was raised by her mother in Georgia, and as a young woman performed on roller skates in shows. [1]
(1920–2014) 2005 Fay Gillis Wells (1908–2012) 1992 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
In June 1929 the parachute-maker Irving Parachute Company, hired her to tour the United States, flying a Bellanca Pacemaker on a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) tour, making the 18-year-old Smith the first female Executive Pilot. On this tour, at the air races in Cleveland, Ohio, she was the pilot for an unprecedented seven-man parachute drop. [1]