Valérie André The World’s First Female By Charles Morgan Evans A 40 ROTOR JUNE 2024


T A REMOTE FRENCH ARMY OUTPOST near Nam Dinh, Vietnam, in November 1952, a group of soldiers waited with one of their wounded for a helicopter on its way from Hanoi, roughly 57 miles away.


Tough helicopters had been introduced to the war in Indochina earlier, the soldiers had never seen one. But they


knew it could save lives and meant they no longer had to transport their wounded by truck or jeep across almost nonexistent roads, exposed to ambush, to reach a distant airstrip. As the Hiller 360 made its approach, its strange, some-


what delicate, insectlike appearance caught the attention of the soldiers first. Ten, the men noticed its pilot, a young


Helicopter Rescue Pilot She broke through barriers to become a military pilot and neurosurgeon.


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