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.

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 ...

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 ...

At 86, Sylvia Clayton has seen enough to know that history has a way of repeating itself. On Monday, she became living proof. The silver-haired grandmother from Oro Valley cruised above the city in a ...

When you reach for the skies, who do you bring with you? For Capt. Holly Petitt, it's her daughter, First Officer Keely Petitt. The Petitts took off on their inaugural flight together on July 23 as ...

In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A Fairhope mother and daughter are making history by flying in the 2025 Air Race Classic. The aviation competition draws female pilots from across the country to continue the ...

Wednesday is the 80th anniversary of VE Day, marking Germany’s unconditional surrender and the end of WWII in Europe. A new book “Spitfires” tells the little-known contribution American women made to ...

Anh-Thu Nguyen hoped to inspire other Asian female aviators through her travels A 44-year-old female pilot is dead after her small plane crashed in Indiana on July 30 In 2024, she became the 10th ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Air Force pilots 'step' to an A-10 for a flight with the Airus device, a new system designed to let pilots — particularly women — ...

Heather Penney, who flies an F-16, was one of the first female fighter pilots. Herstory Lessons pays tribute to women whose accomplishments are hidden from history, but who have made an impact on the ...