Woman Pilot magazine profiling women involved in aviation

Professional Pilot Leadership Initiative  (PPLI)
The Ninety-Nines developed a very special program to support and help members to reach their goals as professional pilots. The mentoring and leadership program started in 2004 and has graduated over 70 members. The program was the creative idea of Jenny Beatty, and she co-founded it with Laura Smith, a pilot […]

By Bobbi Roe
2012
 
 
 “Amelia’s Garden Party” was a kick-off fundraiser sponsored by Nancy Auth and Anne Simpson, Museum of Flight Trustees, to raise funds in order to purchase a Lockheed Electra 10E for the Museum.  The event was held in the side Gallery at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Guests were surrounded by aircraft. The […]

Pilot, horsewoman, artist and teacher, designed bronze sculptures for
Jacquline Cochran Airport in California
and
Highground Veteran’s Memorial Park in Wisconsin
 
By Bobbi Roe
 
Dorothy Swain Lewis, Woman Airforce Service Pilot WWII, created sculptures to honor fellow WASP. Her first sculpture, a full size WASP in training, is in the Wishing Well at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas; […]

I knew the only way to survive was to be ice inside, to feel absolutely nothing.
- Pilot Klavdiya Pankratova of the 586th
(Quoted from “A Dance with Death,” by Anne Noggle)

By Kim Green
 

Girl Soldiers
An icy wind blasted the treeless waste of Engels airfield as the women of Aviation Group 122 assembled before their commanding officer for […]

Russian women combat pilots
By Kim Green
The Message
On July 18, 1944, a solitary Petlyakov-2 bomber dropped out of formation, circled low over the burning town of Borisov, Byelorussia, and tossed out a small container. Citizens of the ravaged town soon found a container with an odd message inside, hastily scribbled on sewn-together strips of towels. It […]