Freydis Sharland flew numerous aircraft, including Spitfires, between factories and airfields as a pilot for the Air ...

Growing up, John Marsh did not fully grasp the significance of his mother’s role as a pilot serving in the military during ...

Queen Elizabeth was a military truck driver during World War II, while "Golden Girl" Bea Arthur was a staff sergeant for the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Aeronautics curator Dorothy Cochrane explores the history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and their fight for recognition for their contributions to World War II. Dorothy Cochrane ...

The former, the record-breaking aviator Jackie Cochran, initially dreamed up the idea after hearing about the fall of Warsaw in the early weeks of World War II ... the war, women pilots could ...

America's Female Pilots In the U.S., military efforts to recruit female pilots began in earnest in World War II with the formation of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program. More than ...

One of the last surviving "Spitfire Women", who ferried aircraft ... remembered Farm owners 'supported Nazis in WW2' In 2020, the former pilot told her housing association's in-house magazine ...

Marking a significant milestone in Air Force history, a female pilot completed a routine F-35 Lightning II flight test at Edwards Air Force Base in California By Posted on Jan 9, 2019 1:00 PM EST ...

None of these women intended to achieve such milestones. “I didn’t feel any weight of history,” Dean noted. “We wanted to put ...

DES MOINES, IOWA — Female pilots are taking hot air ballooning to new heights in Indianola this week. This year, The National Balloon Classic brought in over a hundred pilots from across the ...

Freydis Sharland, nee Leaf, was among the first women to earn RAF pilot wings A blue plaque has ... was created at the start of WW2 to ferry new, damaged and repaired aircraft without radios ...