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MENTORING Tomorrow's Professional Pilot Leaders - one-on-one mentoring by an experienced professional who shares her knowledge, connections, and guidance personally with you. Mentoring is key to your personal success as a pilot, and also to our collective advancement in aviation. The Ninety-Nines has potential mentors for you in every conceivable pilot career, from ballooning scenic tour operator to Shuttle Pilot. Even better, get matched to a woman professional pilot mentor in your area of interest through our formal mentoring program. The 99s Professional Pilot Leadership Initiative aims to provide highly motivated women pilots with the tools necessary to develop their pilot careers and leadership, through guided activities and formal mentoring partnerships with women pilot professionals, in a three-phase 18 to 24 month structured program. Get the latest PPLI Fact Sheet. Get a mentor - be a leader! Participation is open to 99s members who are in or plan to pursue a pilot career. For more information and application

Established in 1929 by 99 women pilots to provide mutual support and advancement of aviation, The Ninety-Nines Organization of Women Pilots has continued and expanded that mission. Today, the organization promotes world fellowship through flight, provides networking and scholarship opportunities for women and aviation education in the community and preserves the unique history of women in aviation.

"The 2013 Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Applications and 2013 New Pilot Award Scholarship Application will be available in Mid to Late July 2012."

PROMOTE world fellowship through flight, PROVIDE networking opportunities for woman and aviation education in the community, and PRESERVE the unique history of women in aviation. Female pilots at ERAU welcome to join us!

[pdf - this story on page 8] What an adventure, flying around the world in 8½ days in a 200 hp Mooney, a small single engine airplane! Well, that's what two of our own Ninety-Nines, CarolAnn Garratt of Florida and Carol M. Foy of Texas, did in December 2008. They were making a Dash for a Cure for ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. They called themselves the Dash Team.

April/May/June 2011 - article on Female-Friendly Web Sites - aviation resources

Boeing KC-10 - U.S. Air Force, one mission with all-female crew operated an aerial refueling tanker above the Middle East. special event - Unmanned KC-10 Flight.