More than 1,000 women who had bravely volunteered to serve their country were about to be out of jobs. The disbandment of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) was coming in less than a month in December 1944. Katherine “Kay” Applegate...
While most of us today know the “Red Baron” mainly as Snoopy’s arch nemesis in the lighthearted Peanuts world, during the days of World War I, the sight of a red triplane was sure to strike fear into any pilot’s heart....
There are few names quite so synonymous with pilot training than Embry-Riddle. What started as a couple of airplanes and a desk in a hotel lobby has now become one of the biggest powerhouses of the aviation world. And it all...
When discussing aviation legends, the list is long. Yet there is one who makes just about every single roll call, and many consider him the ultimate “pilot’s pilot”—Bob Hoover. A U.S. Army Air Forces aviator, flight instructor, test pilot, and ultimate...
During the early days of space exploration in the height of the Cold War era, an idea was floated to put an American woman in space. The idea resulted in the famous “Mercury 13,” led by Jerrie Cobb and formed in...
It was like “wrestling a cobra in a hurricane,” Helen Richey said. After nearly 10 days in the skies over Miami in December 1933, Richey, alongside fellow aviatrix Frances Marsalis, set the women’s in-flight fueling endurance record of 237 hours and...
Jimmy Doolittle was a man of firsts. First flight across the country. First flight solely by reference to instruments. First successful outside loop. In fact, it could be said that he is, in many ways, responsible for flying as we know...
There are many trailblazers to celebrate in the world of aviation. Some well-known names wrote the first chapters of aviation history decades before each of us fell in love with the sky, and their accomplishments and pioneering are well worth celebrating....
