Woman Pilot magazine profiling women involved in aviation

Thirty-eight young women, all volunteers in an Army Air Force WWII experiment, were killed in the line of duty.

Historical film footage of the female pilots that were the WASPS.

WOMEN Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, a historical look through film footage.
Edited and produced by Nancy Parrish. Copyright 1998 Wings Across America.

Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 - 24 August 1979) was a German aviatrix who was once Adolf Hitler’s personal pilot, and was the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II.
For more information, see: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Reitsch

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 […]

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 […]

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.

“Thaden was determined to change the public’s perception of women pilots”
Harmon Trophy winner, Louise Thaden, was one of the courageous aviators who helped create the “Golden Age of Aviation.”

The 1930s was an age when records were made and broken, sometimes within weeks. Thaden set the first official woman’s altitude record of 20,260 feet on December […]