Women are amazing on the land and the sea, but especially the skies. Ever since Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to earn her pilot’s license in 1910, women have been making their mark in ...

When author Becky Aikman decided in 2019 to write a book about the 25 American female pilots who flew planes for the Royal Air Force during World War II, she discovered that all but one of the women ...

If you're one of the 40 percent of the population who suffer from aviophobia (fear of flying), it may soothe your nerves to have a woman pilot. A recent study by the University of Waterloo found that ...

Well-mannered women were not supposed to engage in the daring and dangerous pursuit of aviation when a journalist named Harriet Quimby talked her editor into paying for her flying lessons in 1911.

At 86, Sylvia Clayton has seen enough to know that history has a way of repeating itself. On Monday, she became living proof. The silver-haired grandmother from Oro Valley cruised above the city in a ...

In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A Fairhope mother and daughter are making history by flying in the 2025 Air Race Classic. The aviation competition draws female pilots from across the country to continue the ...

When you reach for the skies, who do you bring with you? For Capt. Holly Petitt, it's her daughter, First Officer Keely Petitt. The Petitts took off on their inaugural flight together on July 23 as ...

Wednesday is the 80th anniversary of VE Day, marking Germany’s unconditional surrender and the end of WWII in Europe. A new book “Spitfires” tells the little-known contribution American women made to ...

This weekend organizers of an event at the Santa Monica Museum of Flying are offering locals rare a chance to hear from a diverse group of female military pilots as The Greatest Generation Meets The ...

If the thought of turbulence makes you sweat and you end up gripping the armrest the whole flight, you're not alone. According to a study about the fear of flying, up to 40% of the population is ...