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A compilation of nine photographs of notable individuals in flight accompanying an advertisement for Beechcraft planes, featuring a story about early female pilot Blanche Stuart Scott and her flight in a Beechcraft model. These clippings come from an…

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Neta Snook Southern was an early American aviatrix. A pioneer in the field of female aviation, Southern was the first woman in Iowa to receive her pilot's license, first student accepted at the Curtiss Flying School in Virginia, and the first woman…

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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…

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Pilot Nancy Harkness Love and Colonel Robert Norman Baker worked together for months, planning the formation of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). Here the two stand in front of an aerial map at the New Castle Army Air Base (NCAAP) in…

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Nancy Harkness Love, Commanding Officer of the original Women's Auxiliary Ferry Squadron (WAFS), as she supervised the check rides of the WAFS at New Castle Army Air Base, Wilmington, Delaware on September 22, 1942. The patch on her jacket was that…

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From left to right, Nancy Bird Walton, Peggy McKillop, and an unidentified passenger in New South Wales, Australia in 1935. Walton and McKillop were the first female barnstormers in Australia. Walton called it the first Ladies Flying Tour of…

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Mitilde E. Moisant was the second woman to get a pilot's license in the United States. The same year she learned to fly Moisant broke the women's altitude record.

Photo courtesy of Mr. Walter Kimoteck

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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…

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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…

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British aviatrix Lady Mary Bailey stands on the lower wing of a plane talking to a person below her in a photograph by the International Newsreel in New York, New York.

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Pictured here is the wreckage of Marvel Crosson's plane. Her plane inexplicably failed under suspicious circumstances during her flight from Santa Monica to Cleveland in the 1929 Women's Air Derby. Crosson was just 25 at the time.

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Aviatrix Marvel Crosson, an altititude record holder, standing on the wing of a plane wearing a winter flying suit with parachute.

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A close up of Marvel Crosson, a participant in the 1929 Women's Air Derby.

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Aviatrix Marvel Crosson preparing a plane for flight.

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Aviatrix Marvel Crosson posing with plane equipment.

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Aviatrix Marjorie Stinson seated in a Wright airplane, probably at Huffman Prairie in Dayton.

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Marjorie Stinson standing next to a plane.

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French pilot Marcelle Choisnet-Gohard in a flight suit getting into a small plane. She held international records for gliding. A paper attached to the bottom of the picture has a description typed in French.

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Major General Jeanne Holm was the first female general in the United States Air Force and the first female two star general in any branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Russian born Major Alexander P. de Seversky came to America, and he enjoyed a successful career as a pilot, inventor, aeronautical engineer, and author. Evelyn Olliphant de Seversky was a New Orleans socialite and pilot. The Major founded Seversky…

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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…

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Louise Thaden sitting in her Travel Air Wright Engine at the first Women’s Air Derby, which took place from August 18 to August 26, 1929. The nineteen women who participated flew from Santa Monica, California to Cleveland. Louise Thaden won with a…

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Aviatrix Louise Thaden holding her victory wreath after arriving first to Cleveland, Ohio in the first Women's Air Derby in 1929 (later called the Powder Puff Derby).

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Aviatrix Louise Thaden sitting on the wing of an airplane.

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Louise Sacchi was the first international ferry pilot, and she formed her own ferrying business. Pictured here is Sacchi standing in front of her aerial map, showing the paths she flew all over the world for her business. She marked her routes and…
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