But the ATA's women were often met with disbelief and ridicule, with fighter pilots sometimes refusing to hand over their ... She also wrote to obtain official dispatches to prove her mother had ...

Some websites on retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, and the World War II-era WASPs have been pulled offline.

she had already trained forty-five pilots! “Partly out of need, partly out of a sense of Communist egalitarianism, the Soviet Air Force in World War II was the only major arm to allow women to f ...

In 2023, Avani reached another remarkable milestone by becoming India's first female pilot to fly the Sukhoi fighter jet. Serving as squadron leader, she participated in a 16-day mega air combat ...

Some Air Force webpages on pioneering female pilots — from World War II to the modern era — have been taken offline, as the Trump administration continues its drive to eliminate diversity ...