While in conversation with author and journalist Mark Whitaker, author Becky Aikman talked about how the American women pilots who volunteered to ferry warplanes for the British military during World ...

Anh-Thu Nguyen, a 44-year-old pilot, died after her small plane crashed near Greenwood, Ind. on Wednesday, July 30. She was ...

At the time, Penney was a rookie pilot in the 121st Fighter Squadron of the D.C. Air National Guard, which hadn't yet had a female F-16 fighter pilot before.

Donald Trump has attacked plans to recruit more female pilots, saying passengers will be put in danger because women may not be up to the job. On Wednesday, the White House accused a United ...

Air Force Times identified at least a dozen pages on the WWII-era Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, and retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force’s first female fighter pilot ...

To say Katherine Sui Fun Cheung was a rarity in the 1930s is an understatement. As a woman of color, she was 1% of the 1% of women pilots.

Radio control pilots often manned PQ-8 and PQ-14 drones from the ground or from a separate plane that followed for a distance of up to five miles, according to the National WASP / WWII Museum’s ...

Of the 590,039 pilots with active airmen certificates in the U.S. as of Dec. 31, 2015, under 7 percent were women, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

‘He hadn’t really seen a female pilot before, as there aren’t that many of us. Only about 6-8% of pilots are female, and only about 3.8% are captains. There were even less when I first started flying ...

The DOD congratulated the female B-2 pilot who was part of Operation Midnight Hammer, the name of the U.S. military’s coordinated strikes against the nuclear facilities, according to Military.com.

Women make up just over 20% of the Air Force’s active duty force, but of the 10,964 rated pilots in the Air Force, only 708, or 6.5%, are women, according to a 2024 press release.