Woman Pilot magazine profiling women involved in aviation

Hanna Reitsch, Nazi Germany’s celebrated woman test pilot who had flown the VI rocket bomb in sub orbital flight in the early 1940’s — 20 years before the first American spaceman — was actually history’s first astronaut.
Hanna started with gliders. Her passion for the air soon overtook her interest in medicine, and she left medical […]

Katha’s 23 years as a corporate pilot began at a time when few women flew for pay, muchless paid corporate flying.

VI COWDEN was in the Womens Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) ferrying fighter planes for the war effort. She had gotten her pilots license before the war while living in South Dakota, then joined the Army Air Corps as a civilian contract employee.
She lived in military housing on the base in Dallas, Texas. The WASPs were […]

West with the Night, the autobiography that introduced me to the extraordinary woman, Beryl Markham, chronicles her Kenyan childhood and her historic, solo flight across the Atlantic from east to west

Susan Helms was a crewmember on Discovery launched on March 8, 2001 from the Kennedy Space Center.

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith could not have guessed in a million years that the baby girl born to them on August 17, 1911 would become the ambitious and record-breaking girl-pilot she turned out to be.

Early in her career, Phoebe impressed the crowds with her daredevil stunts. Later, she impressed the country with her dedication to the aviation industry.

Not so long ago, some believed that women should stay in their kitchens. But little did they know what these kitchens would become!