Navy Times on MSN7d
Air Force purges photos, websites on pioneering female pilots
Some websites on retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, and the World War II-era ...
'Sky Queens' luncheon at American Airpower Museum celebrates women in aviation
"Not only are women going into the industry, but we're already here," said Meagan Hobson, an Air Force reservist. "And we're ...
The National Interest on MSN11d
“The Night Witches”: The Soviet Air Force’s Deadliest Female Bomber Pilots
To answer that question, we turn to former Sunday Times of London journalist Russell Miller in his 1984 book The Soviet Air ...
Smithsonian Magazine4y
Flying on the Homefront: Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
Cornelia Fort U.S. Air Force The WASP flew 60 million ... Jacqueline Cochran, Director of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, donated her WASP dress uniform and other career flight materiel items ...
PBS7y
Establishing the Women's Airforce Service Pilots
England was desperately short of pilots, and the flight schools couldn't keep up with demand. The Royal Air Force's solution was to use trained female aviators to ferry planes around the British ...
Air Force Times8d
Air Force purges photos, websites on pioneering female pilots
Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, are no longer online amid ... During her 31 years in uniform, Leavitt flew more than 3,000 hours, including 300 hours in combat above ...