The male pilots, by many accounts, refused to fly the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. So, Col. Paul Tibbets Jr. trained two women. Dora Dougherty and Dorothea Moorman learned quickly how to handle the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women are amazing on the land and the sea, but especially the skies. Ever since Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to earn ...

On this day in aviation history, 116 years ago (March 8, 1910), French pilot Raymonde de Laroche became the world’s first licensed female pilot. Considered by many to be the first woman to pilot an ...

"These pilots ferried aircraft, flew targets for ground artillery practice, tested airplanes and equipment, and many of them flew in combat. Topics covered include the training of female pilots, how ...

For the first time, a United pilot has reached a position that has never before been held by a woman, marking a long-term trend for female aviators. A United Airlines 787-9 Dreamliner. A United ...

Recently, I stood in an airfield in Sweetwater, Texas, and looked up. I was wondering what it would have been like to take off from there in a small plane, flying into the dust of West Texas and the ...

(Tribune News Service) — Thousands of books and films have been made over the past 80 years celebrating the bravery of American servicemen during World War II. But what about the 25 American women ...

They soar into the desert skies, piloting some of the most sophisticated aircraft the world has ever seen. They have an innate understanding of high-performance aircraft and are always pushing the ...