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Science suggests women make better pilots, so why are there so few of them?

If you're one of the 40 percent of the population who suffer from aviophobia (fear of flying), it may soothe your nerves to ...
Anchorage Daily News

Reaching for renown, the story of Laurence Lombard’s 1930 flight from Boston to Alaska

The Harvard-trained lawyer wasn’t exactly an experienced pilot, and didn’t even have a firm flight plan when he embarked on ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Carlsbad pilot is sole U.S. survivor of WWII women’s flying auxiliary

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 ...
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In their own words forgotten women pilots of early aviation Fred Erisman

Introduction: The aviation age takes shape -- Harriet Quimby: birdwomen gain a voice, 1910-1912 -- "Machinery knows no sex": Ruth Law, the Stinson sisters, and the legacy of World War I -- The Earhart ...
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Lesson Plan: Spitfires - American Women Pilots During WWII

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! While in conversation with author and journalist Mark Whitaker, author Becky Aikman talked about how the American women pilots who volunteered to ...