Dr. Barbara Ganson to Speak About Harriet Quimby’s Fashionable Flight Suit
- Feb
- 22
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- Posted in IWASM News, Women in Air & Space News
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As part of Women in Aviation Week Worldwide, March 5-11, 2012 and the one hundredth anniversary of the first crossing of the English Channel by airplane piloted by a woman aviator in 1912, that is by America’s own Harriet Quimby, the first U.S. licensed woman pilot, I will be giving a power point talk on […]
read moreInteresting article about a WASP during WWII
- Feb
- 16
- Posted by mepps
- Posted in Women in Air & Space News
Ann Gleszer: Pioneer Pilot, And A Military ‘Secret’ www.courant.com Ann Gleszer was literally one of history’s silent heroes — records of the essential work she and other women performed during World War II as Air Force test pilots were buried and stamped classified.
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