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December 5: The South African Women's Aviation Association (SAWAA) is formed with 110 women as first members. 1940 Women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in flying kit at Hatfield, 10 January 1940. Effat Tejaratchi becomes the first Iranian woman to earn her pilot's license.
It was only because of the advances we made in aviation in the 1920s and ’30s that we were ready for war in the 1940s, that we could mass produce planes, and fly them around the world, fighting ...
- Diane Tedeschi
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July 8–9 (overnight) – 64 British bombers strike airfields in the Netherlands and ports in north Germany and lay sea mines. Germany ' s first specialized night fighter unit, Nachtjagdgeschwader 1, scores its first victory, as Oberfeldwebel Hermann Förster shoots down a Whitley off Heligoland.
1940 September 28. Jackie Cochran writes to Eleanor Roosevelt suggesting the establishment of a women's flying division of the Army Air Forces. 1941 June. Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman...
By Nathalia Holt. Aug. 24, 2018. FLY GIRLS. How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History. By Keith O’Brien. Illustrated. 338 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $28. On the spines...
Jun 28, 2018 · In 1910, she was the first American woman to fly solo and took that flight on an airplane she built out of silk, bamboo, and wire in her living room. Born in 1906, “Speed Queen” Jacqueline ...
Mar 1, 2022 · She flew a range of aircraft including the B-17, B-24, B29, and the British de Havilland Mosquito, according to the Commemorative Air Force. Her most famous flight came in October 1944 when she ...
