WASP pilot Gertrude Tomkins Silver crashed off Calif. coast in 1944. Oct. 8, 2009 — -- The fog rolled in from Santa Monica Bay just after noon on Oct. 26, 1944, just three hours before Gertrude ...

Ten out of every 100 Army helicopter pilots are women — but they account for only 3 out of every 100 accidents. That’s the bottom line in an Army report that, in an effort to study the impact of women ...

The Mariners Harbor teen became the youngest African-American female to earn a private pilot's license, and she will use the ...

How this woman pilot turned the F-35A Lightning II into a symbol of power and precision. Capt. Melanie “MACH” Kluesner, commander of the U.S. Air Force F-35A Demo Team, combines skill, grace, and ...

Daniel Huff, a former White House lawyer, noted in a recent analysis that the drive toward diversity and inclusion in the airline industry has put passengers at risk. In an article for the New York ...

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Marilyn Mong of Leetonia holds a photograph of four Women Airforce Service Pilots before a lecture she gave Saturday in the old St. James Episcopal Church in Boardman ...

Stephanie Wallach, one of the first female airline pilots in the United States, faced both challenges and triumphs throughout her groundbreaking career in a male-dominated industry. Now 78 years old ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Bessie Coleman was an ambitious young woman, inspired by Black pilots in World War I. Her accomplishments inspired generations of women and girls aspiring to become pilots. In the ...

(Columbia-AP) -- An Easley High School graduate has become the first woman pilot killed in Iraq. Family spokesman Ken Porter says 27-year-old Captain Kimberly Hampton died yesterday after her OH-58 ...