A group of seven Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) walk side by side at the Fairchild plant in Hagerstown, Maryland. From left to right, those walking are:
Kathryn (Sis) Bernheim,
Gertrude Meserve,
Dorothy Fulton,
Betty Gillies,…
French pilot Anna-Marie Peltier, pictured here with her arms crossed next to a plane, was a F-27 captain for the Air Intern in France. Attached to the photograph is a typed description in French.
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.
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…
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…
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.
Aviatrix Jacqueline “Jackie” Cochran sitting in the cockpit of a Northrop T-38 Talon supersonic twin-jet trainer with Chuck Yeager standing on the ladder next to her.
Alys McKey Bryant standing in front of a Curtiss biplane on July 31, 1913 around 3 P.M. in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This photo was presumably taken shortly after she became the first woman to fly in Canada.
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) founder Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran salutes from the cockpit of a Seversky before taking off for a long distance record flight.
Commemorative stamp of aviatrix Jacqueline “Jackie” Cochran. Cochran broke multiple records and was largely responsible for the formation of the Women Air Service Pilots (WASP). In 1996, the United States Postal Service issued the 50 cent stamp to…
Aviatrix Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran and Northrop T-38 Talon supersonic twin-jet trainer she flew 844.2 miles per hour to a new world's 15 kilometer speed record for women August 24, 1961 at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Ruth Elder standing at the Paul Cox Airfield in Terre Haute, Indiana on August 25, 1929. The first Women's Air Derby, also called the Powder Puff Derby, took place between August 18 and August 27, 1929. The flight began in Santa Monica, California…