ShareSeptember 8, 2009 Janet Folkes and Ann-Ruth Rich set a new women’s endurance record for ballooning. They lifted off in Geneva, Switzerland and landed 60 hours 12 minutes later in Madrid, Spain.    

ShareLast year when I said I’d post a new women’s aviation accomplishment every day they said it couldn’t be done. They said there aren’t enough achievements! Amelia Earhart was the only woman who flew in those days! WRONG Today we …
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ShareSeptember 7, 1931 Florence “Tree Tops” Klingensmith won four events in the National Air Races. The next year she would come back to win the Amelia Earhart Trophy.

ShareSeptember 6, 1948 Blanche Stuart Scott, the first woman to fly a plane solo, became the undisputed first woman to ride in a jet. Chuck Yeager piloted the TF-80C in a series of snap rolls and a 14,000 foot dive.

ShareSeptember 5, 1936 Although her fuel line had frozen Beryl Markham brought her Vega down in a Nova Scotia peet bog and became the first person to fly solo from England to North America. She greeted two stunned fishermen saying …
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ShareSeptember 4, 1936 Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes became the first women to win the Bendix Trophy, flying from New York to Los Angeles in 14 hours and 55 minutes in a Beechcraft model C-17R “Staggerwing,” beating a full field of …
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ShareSeptember 2, 1910 Blanche Stuart Scott became the first American woman to fly solo–sort of. Scott was renowned as the second woman to drive a car across the U.S. when she took flying lessons from aircraft designer Glenn Curtiss. Scott …
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ShareSeptember 1, 1933 Sixteen-year old Marion “Babe” Weyant wrote to Amelia Earhart asking how she could become a pilot. Earhart responded “I believe that if you are not afraid to work very hard and really wish to enter aviation, you will …
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ShareAugust 31, 2004 Dr. Carol Rymer-Davis and Richard Abruzzo won the 48th Coupe Gordon Bennett. Taking off from Thionville, France, and landing in Mullsjo, Sweden, Rymer-David became the first woman to win this premier balloon race in its 98 year history.

ShareAugust 30, 1932 Female pilots competing for the Cleveland Air Races’ Aerol Trophy took off into a thunderstorm. Gladys O’Donnell won the race, flying the great racer “Ike” a Howard DGA-4 designed by Ben Howard.

ShareAugust 29, 1911 Hilda Hewlett became the first British woman to earn a pilot’s license. By September she was flying in air shows and the next year she started an aircraft manufacturing business and the first successful flight school. Despite (or …
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ShareAugust 28, 1928 Daredevil Jessie Woods eloped with her boyfriend Jimmie. The pair founded the Flying Aces Air Circus, performing until 1938. Jessie flew planes, performing dangerous landings, walked on the wings and parachuted. She was known for dangling by her …
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ShareAugust 27, 1987 Continental Airlines Captain Lennie Sorenson led the first all female wide-body flight crew in a DC-10. Also serving were First Officer Dorothy Clegg, and Flight Engineer Karlene Cipriano.  

ShareAugust 26, 2008 17-year-old Sarah Lochner accomplished an amazing aviation triple play. After passing her check-ride and earning her license for flying a single-engine land plane she passed the test for water-craft flying a float plane. And only four days …
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