List of women aviators - Wikipedia
This is a list of women aviators — women prominent in the field of aviation as constructors, designers, pilots and patrons. It also includes a list of their relevant organisations such as the Betsy Ross Air Corps and Women's Royal Air Force .
‘Doing their bit’: The female fighter pilots of World War II
2017年6月12日 · Twenty-five enthusiastic and experienced female flyers from the USA joined the ATA in 1942. Four women from New Zealand determinedly paid their own passage in order to be part of history. One woman, 19-year-old Margot ‘Chilli’ Duhalde, spoke no English at all on arrival, yet went forth with the same sense of courageous daring.
First female RAF pilot recalls trailblazing flight - BBC
It is 30 years since the Royal Air Force marked a watershed moment with the graduation of its first ever female pilot. Three decades later, the woman at the centre of that trailblazing moment...
Unsung Heroines – Female Pilots of WWII - WAR HISTORY ONLINE
2018年6月14日 · Molly delivered more than 500 aircraft in her time with the ATA, surviving a crash landing in the process. She was extremely fortunate – other pilots were attacked by enemy fighters while ferrying planes and over 170 ATA pilots died in the war.
First female RAF pilot recalls trailblazing flight - BBC News
2021年6月19日 · It is 30 years since the Royal Air Force marked a watershed moment with the graduation of its first ever female pilot. Three decades later, the woman at the centre of that trailblazing moment...
Jo Salter - Wikipedia
Joanna Mary Salter MBE (born 27 August 1968, in Bournemouth) is a former Royal Air Force pilot, and was Britain's first female fast jet pilot flying the Panavia Tornado ground attack aircraft with 617 Squadron.
Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) 1918 – 1920 - RAF Museum
Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) 1918 – 1920. During the First World War, members of the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) worked on air stations belonging to the Royal Flying Corps …
Exhibition commemorates WWII female fighter pilots - BBC News
2011年7月18日 · One July day in 1941 as war raged in Europe four women made history when they took to the skies in RAF fighter aircraft. Winnie Crossley, the Hon Margaret Fairweather, Rosemary Rees and Joan...
The Women’s RAF | Smithsonian
In the 1930s, England’s Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia and set record times flying her de Havilland Puss Moth from London to both Tokyo and Cape Town,...
Diana Barnato Walker - Wikipedia
Diana Barnato Walker MBE FRAeS (15 January 1918 – 28 April 2008) was a pioneering British aviator. In World War II, she became one of the first women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary, flying 80 types of aircraft and delivering 260 Spitfires.