When I joined the Air Force, I was in the first class to have women go through pilot training at Vance Air Force Base, in Enid, Okla. I think there were 450 pilots on that base, and we were the ...

I was a commercial transport pilot working my way in the male-dominated airline industry. Here’s what I learned and I did to ...

Young Post · Listen to the story: Christina Ho, a female pilot Six years ago, Christina Ho, a flight attendant at the time, needed to attend a friend’s wedding in Malaysia, but there were no ...

Airlines have been stepping up their efforts to recruit more female pilots to meet the increasing demand for travel. Spending on travel and tourism has spiked in recent years, with customers keen ...

Harriet Quimby on her historic Channel flight On August 1, 1911, at age 36, Harriet Quimby became America's first licensed woman pilot. Less than a year later she would be dead, victim of the kind ...

Squadron Leader Mohana Singh has become the first woman fighter pilot to join the elite 18 'Flying Bullets' squadron, operating India's indigenously 'Made in India' LCA Tejas fighter jet squadron.

But has she inspired a generation of new female pilots today? Earhart was a true pioneer for female aviation. She dreamed of flying since getting up close to a fighter plane in Canada during World ...

The 36-year-old from Lancashire in the north of England has just been offered a job as a pilot by UK carrier EasyJet, joining a small but growing number of women around the world flying commercial ...

Boss of pilots’ union says airlines must do more to encourage women into the skies - Only six per cent of pilots in the UK ...

She wrote a letter to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt arguing that, in the eventuality of American involvement in the war, women pilots could fly military aircraft on support missions, releasing men ...

which are largely dominated by male pilots, more accessible for women. Amy Leversidge, who was elected as the British Airline Pilots’ Association’s (Balpa) first female general secretary in ...