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MARCH MARKS WOMEN IN AVIATION MONTH. TODAY, WOMEN ARE A MAJOR PART OF THE AVIATION INDUSTRY AS PILOTS, MECHANICS, ENGINEERS AND AN ENDLESS LIST OF OTHER PROFESSIONS IN OUR CRAFT.


During the 1800s women took to the air in balloons and became some of the fi rst in the world to parachute from aloft. Since the fi rst powered fl ights in 1903, women frequently assisted their male counterparts fi nancially or as part of their hands-on ground crew. Blanche Stuart Scott took lessons from Glenn Curtiss and although unlicensed, she became the fi rst American woman to solo in 1910.


6 DOMmagazine.com | mar 2017 In 1911 Harriet Quimby became


America’s fi rst licensed female pilot and in 1912 she became the fi rst woman to solo across the English Channel. When American fl ight schools would not accept her, Bessie Coleman studied in France to become the fi rst licensed African-American woman pilot in 1921. Coleman returned to the United States and became a popular exhibition pilot until her death in an accident in 1926.


After the US government required licensing of pilots and aircraft mechanics, aviators Phoebie Omlie and Ruth Nichols were the fi rst and second women to receive their Airframe and Power Plant licenses in 1927. The fi rst all-women group of licensed


pilots was formed in 1929 headed by aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Offi cially named the International Organization of Women Pilots, they are best known


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