First Officer Lynn Rippelmeyer at the controls of a Seaboard World Airlines Boeing 747. In 1980, Rippelmeyer was the first woman to fly as a pilot on the Boeing 747. She was later hired by People Express Airlines, where she was a co-captain of the…
Captain Sharyn Emminger and First Officer Karen Squyres flying Short SD-3-30 for Hawaiian Airlines. They were the first all-female crew for US Hawaiian Airlines.
First Officer Lynn Rippelmeyer at the loading stairs of a Seaboard World Airline Boeing 747. In 1980, Rippelmeyer was the first woman to fly as a pilot on the Boeing 747. She later was hired by People Express Airlines, where she was a co-captain of…
Bessie Coleman in a military uniform stands in front of an airplane's front rudder. Coleman was the first African American female pilot and first African American to hold an international pilot license.
Maryse Hilsz, a French pilot, is seen leaning against her Moth-Morane plane. On the side of the plane are the words "Paris" and "Saigon." She flew from the former to the later solo in 1930. In her earlier flying career, Hilsz was a parachute…
Nancy Hopkins Tier is shown in the cockpit of a plane during the 1930 Ford Reliability Tour. Tier was a charter member of the Ninety-Nines, was the only woman to participate in the Ford Reliability Tour, and served in the Connecticut Civil Air…
The crew of The American Nurse airplane, Dr. Leon Martocci-Pisculli (commander), Edna Newcomer (copilot), and William Ulbrich (pilot). They made an attempt in the aircraft The American Nurse to fly from New York to Rome in September 1932. After the…
Codye Gwen Clinkscales, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), sits on an airplane wheel. Written on the back of the photograph, "This shot makes me look soo----- long. Its the perspective partly - anyway I can hope I don't look like…
Codye Gwen Clinkscales, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), wearing a flight suit and parachute. She describes how she appears on the back of the photograph: "This stance is known as the parachute swagger. After lugging fore [sic]…
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Darlene Calkins, Edythe Carleton, and Codye Gwen Clinkscales posing for a photo. On the back of the photograph, a hand written message reads "We live in the wind and sand and our eyes are on the stars"
Five Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) stand for a picture. They are labeled from left to right as Darlene Calkins, Codye Gwen Clinkscales, Nancy Bulkeley, Lucille A. Carey, and Edythe Carleton.
Codye Gwendolyn Clinkscales is pictured with three of her fellow Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP): Lillian Darlene Calkins (labeled by Codye as "my pal"), Lucille Carey, and Edythe Carleton.
Yvonne "Pat" Pateman, a trainee of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), stands by a Primary trainer, PT-19 at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas in March 1943.