http://womanpilot.com Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:35:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Our mission is to honor the 38 W.A.S.P (Women Airforce Service Pilots WWII) who died in the service of their country" U.S. Army Chaplain, Captain J. Clemens Thirty-eight young women, all volunteers in an Army Air Force WWII experiment, were killed in the line of duty. Now, 65 years later, a U.S. Army Chaplain, ... http://womanpilot.com/?p=91 Historical film footage of the female pilots that were the WASPS. http://womanpilot.com/?p=89 WOMEN Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, a historical look through film footage. Edited and produced by Nancy Parrish. Copyright 1998 Wings Across America. http://womanpilot.com/?p=88 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 http://womanpilot.com/?p=86 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 ... http://womanpilot.com/?p=87    By Barbara Muehlhausen    I had finally caught up with her. Katha House was on a layover at Midway airport in Chicago and offered to give a tour of the place she feels most at home - the cockpit of Richmor Aviation's Falcon 50 jet. It's hard to find a time when ... http://womanpilot.com/?p=81 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 ... http://womanpilot.com/?p=90 By Stacey Kotrla, Falcon 2000 Pilot The first aviation conference I attended was in the spring of 2000.  Unbeknownst to me, I had won the Corporate Career Scholarship offered by Women in Corporate Aviation that I had applied for.  Liz Clark from WCA called me asking if I was planning to ... http://womanpilot.com/?p=76 By Woman Pilot staff writer Major Nicole M. E. Malachowski, the first female demonstration pilot on the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron "Thunderbirds", performed her first public performance with the team in March 2006. Major Malachowski flies the No. 3 jet as the right wing pilot in the diamond formation.  Maj. ... http://womanpilot.com/?p=73 By Gina M. West Have you always been interested in flying? Have you ever promised yourself that one day you would be the person sitting at the controls of an aircraft? If so, now may be the time to start pursuing your dream. A strong economy, coupled with reports of an ... http://womanpilot.com/?p=71