"Alice du Pont Mills - pilot's license in 1929 at 18. 1934 flew to South America, up the Amazon River, south to Rio de Janeiro. WW II, taught instrument flying to Navy airmen, and to women ferry pilots
Amelia Earhart - first women to fly across the Atlantic and the Pacific, participated in the first Women's Air Derby, founder of the Ninety-Nines. During an attempted around-the-world flight at the Equator, vanished near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean in 1937