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"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

"Women in aviation inspiring girls to achieve their full potential! Read these Women's stories about what they do and why they love it!"

Women in Corporate Aviation aims to create diversity in corporate and business aviation and provides networking, mentoring and scholarships.

Honoring the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII. Preserving the important contributions of WASP for future generations.

International Society of Women Airline Pilots, sometimes called ISA+21, to acknowledge the original 21 members who formed ISA in 1978. Site includes membership and scholarship information.

"¡Saludos!/Salutations! We welcome you to read our featured profiles of diverse Latina women working at NASA centers across our nation - just click on their names below. "

Research has proven that we can expose our girls to the opportunities available to them, but unless we can give them real life examples of women who have achieved their dreams, girls have difficulty picturing themselves doing the same.

"this is an historical list, intended to deal with the time period when women working in science were rare. For this reason, this list ends with the 20th century."

"Hazel Lee (1912-1944) - Aviation Pioneer" Experienced women pilots, like Lee, were eager to join the WASP, and responded to interview requests by Cochran. Members of the WASP reported to Avenger Field, in wind swept Sweetwater, Texas for an arduous 6-month training program. Lee was accepted into the 4th class, 43 W 4. Hazel Ying Lee was the first Chinese American woman to fly for the United States military.

"Developing excellence in women pilots necessitates studying gender differences in learning to fly. Once flight instructors become aware of these differences, they are better able to minimize women's weaknesses and build their strengths. "

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!

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

Story of a remarkable young women who learned to fly [close black window by clicking on x in top right of black box overlaying the article]

"'The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club' chronicles the thrilling life and extraordinary times of aviation pioneer Florence Lowe 'Pancho' Barnes, one of the most colorful and accomplished women pilots of the earliest 20th Century, and an ill-behaved woman who made history. Featuring interviews with test pilots Bob Cardenas, R.A. "Bob" Hoover and Chuck Yeager, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin."

Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance has membership, scholarship, conferences and speakers network information. AWAM was formed to champion Women's professional growth and opportunities in aviation maintenance.

Lots of neat gifts for and about vintage women pilots.

Special links and information that honor the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII.

Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity and Society, whose mission is to teach women and girls to negotiate.

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"Canstruction 2010, that annual celebration of cool design, tricky engineering, and donating a whole lot of time, talent and food to New Yorkers who need it most. all those amazing creations will be dismantled and the construction materials-some 100,000 (!) cans of food-will be given directly to City Harvest, and so to scores of hungry New Yorkers, men, women and children, via soup kitchens, food banks, shelters and senior homes citywide. "