Amy Johnson was a pioneering British aviator who was the first female pilot to fly alone from Britain to Australia. She set numerous long-distance records during the 1930s. She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and died during a ferry flight. Boudica or Boudicca Latinised as Boadicea …
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Bessie Coleman
Bessie “Queen Bess” Coleman was a pioneer in the field of aviation. She was the first black female pilot, the first black woman to earn an international pilot’s license and the first black woman to fly a plane in a public airshow in the U.S. Coleman was born in 1892 in Atlanta, Texas to sharecroppers …
Hiuaz Kairovna Dospanova
Hiuaz Kairovna Dospanova was the only female pilot and navigator from Kazakhstan to serve during the Second World War. Dospanova was born in 1922 in the village of Ganyushkino, Kazakhstan. She was an excellent student and graduated with honours from high school No. 1 in Uralsk in 1940. Dospanova was a member of her local …
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was a writer and an American aviation pioneer, she was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Earhart had no interest in flying until a short 10 minute trip on a plane at a Long Beach air show in 1920. As soon as Earhart was two or three hundred …