On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...

How the Chinese American pilot helped pave the way for women in the U.S. military The post 442: Hazel Ying Lee was the original Asian American flygirl appeared first on JoySauce.

Growing up, John Marsh did not fully grasp the significance of his mother’s role as a pilot serving in the military during ...

Amelia Earhart and Nancy Bird Walton were famous for their pioneering feats in the aviation industry. But Queensland-raised ...

Martha McSally remembers the feeling vividly, the sense that her stomach was tying itself in a knot and that she might throw up. She was sitting in the cockpit of her A-10 Warthog Attack Plane flying ...

As a young girl, Wilma “Willi” Walker would look up at the sky and dream of flying as she watched the airplanes fly over. In ...

None of these women intended to achieve such milestones. “I didn’t feel any weight of history,” Dean noted. “We wanted to put our heads down. We wanted to work. We wanted to do the mission.” Like many ...

Pro-life social media influencer Lydia Taylor Davis visited App State Tuesday to speak about her stance on abortion with ...

The Seed Library at the Watauga County Library has been pursuing its goal of feeding the local community as well as educating ...

Old Dominion defeated Christopher Newport 97-61 Sunday afternoon in a preseason exhibition at Chartway Arena. The Captains, who had gone to NCAA Division III Tournament’s Sweet 16 for seven ...

R Karthika (28) hails from Idukki in Kerala which lacks rail connectivity, but that didn’t prevent her from becoming the first woman loco pilot from the hill district. The ancestors of Karthika’s ...