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Lynn Barton (born 1956) is a British aviator who was the first female pilot employed by British Airways in 1987. [1] In 2008, She was the first pilot to fly an aircraft into London Heathrow Terminal 5 .
She was the first woman to become a military pilot when she flew reconnaissance missions for the Tsar in 1914. [1] [2] She started taking flying lessons in 1911, and was awarded her flying license in 1912. However, she gave up flying in 1913 after her instructor died mid-flight. [3]
Raymonde de Laroche (22 August 1882 – 18 July 1919) was a French pilot, thought to be the first woman to pilot a plane. She became the world's first licensed female pilot on 8 March 1910. She received the 36th aeroplane pilot's licence issued by the Aeroclub de France, the world's first organization to issue pilot licences. At the time, pilot ...
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]
Robyn Clay-Williams, one of the first two female pilots in the Royal Australian Air Force and the service's first female test pilot; Jerrie Cobb (1931–2019), first woman to fly in the Paris Air Show and to be tested as an astronaut [18] [19] Jacqueline Cochran (1908–1980), first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound [20]
Amelia Mary Earhart (/ ˈ ɛər h ɑːr t / AIR-hart; born July 24, 1897; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer.On July 2, 1937, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world.
Helen Richey (November 21, 1909 – January 7, 1947) was a pioneering female aviator and the first woman to be hired as a pilot by a commercial airline in the United States. [ 1 ] In 1933, she and her flying partner, Frances Harrell Marsalis, set a women's fueling endurance record of 237 hours and 42 minutes above the city of Miami in their ...
The following year, Captain Yap was the first to pilot an all-female crew in the Anglo-Caribbean. [151] On 9 September 1976, Asli Hassan Abade soloed her first flight as the only female pilot in the Somali Air Force. [166] [197] In 1977, Cheryl Pickering-Moore and Beverley Drake of Guyana became the first two women pilots of the Guyana Defence ...