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The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (also Women's Army Service Pilots [2] or Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots [3]) was a civilian women pilots' organization, whose members were United States federal civil service employees. Members of WASP became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots.
On July 31, 1991, the United States Senate lifted the ban on military women flying in combat. [222] By 1998, US military women were flying combat missions from aircraft carriers. [223] In 1992, the first female helicopter pilot to fly in Antarctica was a military officer, Judy Chesser Coffman, of the United States Navy. [224]
Also in 1976, the Air Force Academy first admitted women; in 1986, the Air Force Academy’s top graduate was a woman for the first time (Terrie Ann McLaughlin). [7] [18] [19] Also in 1986, six Air Force women served as pilots, copilots, and boom operators on the KC-135 and KC-10 tankers that refueled FB-111s during the raid on Libya. [7 ...
Captain Theresa Claiborne flew military jets before becoming a commercial pilot for United Airlines. Now after 43 years, she’s hanging up her pilot’s wings.
Mariana Drăgescu (1912–2013), Romanian military pilot in World War II; Margot Duke, Marchioness of Reading (1919–2015), society beauty who was one of the first women in Britain to get a pilot's license [24] Maxine Dunlap (1908–1977), first woman glider pilot and first woman glider club president in the U.S.
Photos of historic milestones of U.S. Air Force Col. Jeannie Leavitt, who was the country’s first female fighter pilot; of the first female Marines; and of World War II Women Air Service Pilots ...
A/2C Frances E. Courtney furnished the bugle calls of taps and reveille for the 3452nd Student Squadron (WAF) at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in 1953. The Women's Air Force (WAF) was a program which served to bring women into limited roles in the United States Air Force.
The Afghan Air Force starts training women pilots again. Sourya Saleh and Masooma Hussaini are trained as helicopter pilots. [288] Niloofar Rahmani is trained as a fixed-wing military pilot, the first Afghan woman in the military to fly planes. [289] Sakhile Nyoni-Reiling becomes the first woman General Manager of government-owned Air Botswana ...