This Air Force pilot is the first woman to fly the F-35 in combat
2020年6月11日 · Air Force Capt. Emily “Banzai” Thompson had never conducted a combat sortie before deploying to Al Dhafra Air Force base in the United Arab Emirates. Now, she is the first woman to ever fly ...
Jeannie Leavitt - Wikipedia
Jeannie Marie Leavitt (née Flynn; born c. 1967) is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) general officer. She became the U.S. Air Force's first female fighter pilot in 1993, and was the first woman to command a USAF combat fighter wing. [2] .
A tale of two generations of women in combat aviation
2023年3月31日 · On April 28, 1993, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Les Aspin issued a historic order that allowed women to fly in combat. This decision opened the doors for women to qualify as operational and combat mission ready military fighter and bomber pilots for the first time.
A Woman’s Right to Fly and Fight | Smithsonian
A 1994 photograph shows a 27-year-old Jeannie Flynn in an F-15E Strike Eagle, just as she officially became the first U.S. Air Force female fighter pilot accepted for combat. She is...
Just Doing Their Jobs | National Air and Space Museum
2023年12月21日 · Women were not allowed to fly for the U.S. military in World War I, but during World War II, women flew in non-combat roles in the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) and the Women’s Flying Training Detachment (WFTD), which merged to form the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).
Navy aviator scores first air-to-air victory by a US female fighter pilot
2024年7月22日 · The first air-to-air victory by a female pilot comes 30 years after Lt. Kara Hultgreen became the first carrier-based female fighter pilot in the Navy, flying the F-14 Tomcat off the USS...
Air Force first female fighter pilot on women in combat | Fortune
2023年5月2日 · Major General Jeannie Leavitt (left), the U.S. Air Force's first female fighter pilot, with Captain Nicole "Jinx" Wedge (right).
US Air Force / All Female “Cool Fighter Pilots” Flight Operations
2022年4月1日 · Women Pilots in the U.S. Military / F-15,F-16,F-35,A-10…First Female Fighter Pilot, First Marine Pilot, and more.Every year, March is designated Women’s Hist...
Flying Firsts: The USAF's First Female Fighter Pilot
2018年9月18日 · The United States Air Force became its own separate military service on September 18, 1947, but it would be nearly three decades before women were accepted into the Air Force on an equal basis with men. When the USAF selected that first woman for pilot training in 1976, Jeannie M. Leavitt was 9 years old, living in St. Louis, Missouri.
Life as a Female Fighter Pilot | National Air and Space Museum
2016年10月3日 · Throughout her military career, Lt. Col. Christine Mau has helped prove that women can perform, outstandingly, in some of the toughest positions in the United States Air Force. And, as a fighter pilot, she has done so with only a …