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1921
Adrienne Bolland is the first woman to fly over the Andes.
Bessie Coleman
becomes the first African American to earn a pilot’s
certificate.
1922
Lillian Gatlin is the first woman to fly across America as a
passenger.
1928
Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the Atlantic
(June 17).
1929
Florence Lowe Barnes (Pancho Barnes) becomes the first woman
stunt pilot in motion pictures.
Amelia Earhart
becomes the first president of the Ninety-Nines, an organization
of women pilots.
1930
Amy Johnson becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to
Australia (May 5-24).
Anne Morrow
Lindbergh becomes the first woman to earn a glider pilot
license.
1931
Ruth Nichols fails in her attempt to fly solo across the
Atlantic, but she breaks the world distance record flying from
California to Kentucky.
Katherine
Cheung becomes the first woman of Chinese ancestry to earn a
pilot’s license.
1932
Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the
Atlantic (May 20-31).
Ruthy Tu
becomes the first woman pilot in the Chinese Army.
1934
Helen Richey becomes the first woman pilot hired by a regularly
scheduled airline, Central Airlines.
Jean Batten is
the first woman to fly round trip England to Australia.
1935
Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to
the American mainland (January 11-23).
1936
Beryl Markham becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic
east to west.
Louise Thaden
and Blanche Noyes beat male pilots also entered in the Bendix
Trophy Race, the first victory of women over men in a race in
which both genders could enter.
1937
Amelia Earhart lost over the Pacific (July 2).
1938
Hanna Reitsch becomes the first woman to fly a helicopter and
the first woman to be licensed as a helicopter pilot.
1939
Willa Brown, the first African American commercial pilot and
first African American woman officer in the Civil Air Patrol,
helps form the National Airmen’s Association of America to
help open up the U.S. Armed Forces to African American men.
Jacqueline
Cochran sets and international speed record; the same year, she
is the first woman to make a blind landing.
Vera Huckel
begins her career at the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics, NASA’s predecessor, as an engineer. She was one
of only 3 women engineers at NACA’s Langley Research Center
during that time.
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