A female pilot was attempting to become the first Vietnamese woman to make a solo flying trip around the world. Unfortunately, the pilot, Anh-Thu Nguyen, died after her plane crashed in Indiana.
When author Becky Aikman decided in 2019 to write a book about the 25 American female pilots who flew planes for the Royal Air Force during World War II, she discovered that all but one of the women ...
Anh-Thu Nguyen, a Vietnamese-born flight instructor, had just taken off from the Indy South Greenwood Airport bound for Pennsylvania on the second leg of her global flight when her 2005 Lancair IV-P ...
We have a lot of evidence to go on, and I believe the chances are 9 out of 10 that it’s Amelia’s plane, but we won’t know ...
Women are amazing on the land and the sea, but especially the skies. Ever since Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to earn her pilot’s license in 1910, women have been making their mark in ...
With fewer than 10% of pilots being women, the Tucson 99s are on a mission to lift more female aviators into the skies.
In a study conducted at the University of Waterloo in Canada, researchers discovered that female pilots have unique strengths in high-pressure situations. The results showed that women had "more ...
Well-mannered women were not supposed to engage in the daring and dangerous pursuit of aviation when a journalist named Harriet Quimby talked her editor into paying for her flying lessons in 1911.