Three planes that flew in the 1929 Women's Air Derby at the Paul Cox Air Field in Terre Haute, Indiana. The race began in Santa Monica, California on August 18 and ended in Cleveland, Ohio on August 26.
Ruth Law sits with her hands at the lever controls of her self-built aircraft. The hand-written caption on the back of the photograph reads "Center section view of Curtiss Model E. [illegible] which I had built for my exhibition flight and won med…
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…
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…
First Officer Rosella Bjornson of Pacific Western Airlines (formerly with Transair of Canada.) She was the first Canadian woman jet pilot and the first woman in North America to fly as copilot on a jet aircraft for a scheduled air carrier.
Famous aviatrix Harriet Quimby sits in the seat of a Bleriot plane. She was the first female pilot in the United States and the first woman to fly across the English Channel. This picture was taken during her flight across the English Channel on…
Louise Sacchi standing beside a Beechcraft plane in front of a Beechcraft factory. She is wearing “The Spanish Medal.” Sacchi was preparing to deliver the Spanish Fleet of Beechcraft airplanes to Spain in 1971.
Captain Yvonne "Pat" Pateman, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), working among assigned troops at the Target Intelligence Center at the Yokota Air Base in Fussa, Japan during World War II.
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) trainees from the class of 43-5 gather beside and on an airplane in Sweetwater, Texas. From left to right in the back row are Mary Ann Wetherby and Ellen Croxton. In the front row are Margaret Cox, Edna…
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.
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.
Evelyn "Bobbi" Trout was an early aviator who participated in the 1929 Women's Air Derby. In this picture from 1929, Trout is modeling a newly designed electrically-heated flying suit. Trout and Elinor Smith were the first women's team to set the…
Mary Haizlip waves from her American Eagle plane. She is about to take off as a participant in the 1929 First Women's Air Derby from California to Ohio. It lasted from August 18 to August 26. The pioneer aviatrix was the second woman to receive…
Helen MacCloskey and Helen Richey sit on a plane at the Cord Cup National Air Derby on Saturday August 20, 1932 in Washington, D.C. The Cord Cup National Air Derby was a transcontinental air race that had pilots beginning in Washington D.C. and Los…