Amelia Earhart wasn’t the only female aviator storming the skies in rickety open-cockpit planes in the 1920s. In 1928, fewer than a dozen American women held pilot’s licenses, but a small ...

Early female pilots rivaled Earhart in courage. Miss Elinor Smith, 17 years old, waving to the crowd of thousands, just after she landed after establishing a new women's flight endurance record ...

Charles Lindbergh’s epic solo nonstop flight from New York to Paris in 1927 inspired a few daring women to seek a page in the history books by trying to become the first female to fly across the ...

For pilots of the 1920s and ’30s, the challenges were enormous. Multiply. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 45°F. Thursday, March 13th 2025 e-Pilot. e-Pilot Evening Edition.

Undeterred, the female pilots organized and pushed some more until, in 1936, they were finally going head-to-head with the men in the biggest, most grueling race of all. And won.

As the Google Doodle commemorates the 125th anniversary of pilot Bessie Coleman’s birth, here’s a short list of other queens in the air.

GLOUCESTER — Becoming one of America’s first female airline pilots was a dream come true for Mary Bush Shipko. But the job was also a nightmare. Hired in 1976 by Hughes Airwest, the airline ...

Before Amelia : women pilots in the early days of aviation / Eileen F. Lebow Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Object Details Author Lebow, Eileen F Contents Acknowledgments -- 1. In the beginning - ...

Early women pilots needed to be not just good but 100% perfect. Otherwise, ... In “Fly Girls,” Keith O’Brien tells the story of America’s first female aviators.

Mary Bush Shipko of Gloucester is an author and speaker who shares her story and that of other early female commercial aviators. Her latest self-published book, “The Firsts: Women Pilots and How ...