“Aviation is, by and large, a masculine activity, and the women who enters this arena does so at the risk of becoming a second-rate aviator or a less feminine female.”
Milton W. Horowitz
Psychology professor, For Men Only? Flying magazine Aug 1965
#WomenFly @flyingmagazine.bsky.social
A grayscale portrait of a Korean woman in glasses, aviator cap and goggles on her head, photographed from the chest up.
#OTD Kwon Ki-ok became the first licensed female pilot in Korea on 28 February 1925.
#history #womenshistory #asianhistory #Korea #Korean #koreanhistory #flying #aviator #pilot #aviation #womenflytoo #womenfly #womenpilots#OnThisDay
Betsy Coleman! Dorothy had the shoes, but she didn't have the vision. Coleman did. #womenfly
#womenfly
Emily Calandrelli on the beauty of sending more women into space, we “get to describe it in a way that moms can understand, that women can understand.”
“It was the same feeling I got when my kids were born where I’m like, seeing it for the first time.”
www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/s...
When a member of The Ninety-Nines lands at an airport on the other side of the country and sees a 99s compass rose - what else would she do?
She stops, she gets out of the plane, and of course grabs a photo!
#the99s #womenpilots #ninetyninesinc #womenfly
Theresa Claiborne, retirement flight from United Airlines.
Theresa Claiborne, USAF first Black female pilot.
#flying #womenfly
“If You Can See It, You Can Be It.”
Theresa Claiborne, first Black female pilot #USAF, recently retired from United Airlines. Super read on pilot visibility and role models: airandspace.si.edu/air-and-spac...
Beautiful morning for a flight. Flew over my old school on a Monday morning-retirement is wonderful. #womenfly #flywisconsin
“The men go off and fight the wars and fly the airplanes and come back and help design and build and test them. The fact that women are not in this field is a fact of our social order.”
John Glenn. July 1962. His position evolved. #wallyfunk #womenfly
#flying #aerobatics #womenfly #pilotlife #avgeek #airshow
Found a new flying podcast, what a great way to start the year! Will be listening on the way to BOS today. Here's the direct link to the @pattyaerobatics episode:
#pilotlife #flying #avgeek #womenfly
Reread the classic aviation adventure book West With The Night by Beryl Markham. Beautiful writing distilling life.
And quotes like this, using airmanship to turn and climb in better air rather than just full power into mountain downdrafts:
#avgeek #flying #pitts #aerobatic #womenfly
“Receiving my first Medicare card a few months ago was not much of a thrill. I wanted to burn it immediately and go out and buy a Pitts!”
Betty Skelton, quoted in New York Times obit
#FlyNavy #womenfly
“It would’ve been nice to see someone who looked like me in this role; I never intended to be the first. I hope it’s encouraging to other people.”
Madeline G. Swegle, USN's first Black female tactical air pilot:
#womenfly #USAF #fighterpilot #avgeek #flying
“I realize not every person wanted this to happen. But I realize that’s also irrelevant.”
~ Jeannie Flynn, first USAF female fighter pilot trained for combat.
RIP Captain Warner, the first female pilot to say,
“This is your captain speaking . . . “
#womenfly #airlinepilot #flying
Astronaut Jessica Meir:
“This is really just us doing our jobs.”
#Spacewalk #WomenInSTEM #womeninspace #womenfly
“You can fit all the female captains in the world on one Airbus A380. Clearly there is an issue here.”
Clearly!
Quoted in Air Transport World magazine Aug 2019. #womenfly #A380 #pilotlife
“The aircraft doesn’t know if you are male or female.”
~ Caroline Jensen, USAF F16 pilot. #womenfly #fighterpilot #avgeek
“We seek, only, a place in our nation's space future without discrimination.”
RIP Jerrie Cobb, NASA’s first female astronaut candidate.
#womenfly #astronaut #avgeek
“She would say the problem first was that men were afraid they couldn’t do the job. And then they were afraid that they could.”
~ Capt. Rosemary Mariner, USN. Regards attitudes to female pilots.
#womenfly #fighterpilot
"Airline Pilot to Fly by Seat of Panties” ~ LA Times newspaper, June 1973. #womenfly #crewlife #airlinepilot
