Jackie Cochran ran the Women’s Ferrying Training Detachment (WFTD), recruiting female pilots with as little as 35 hours and sending them off to a 23-week flight training program, the same as ...
The following year, in January 1992, Flt Lt Sally Cox became the first female pilot selected for fast jet training. Two years later in 1994, Flight Lieutenant Joanna Salter became the RAF's first ...
GUANGZHOU, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) — At the ongoing Airshow China in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, the Chinese Navy introduced two members of its first batch of women carrier-based aircraft pilot ...
Within months the women's pilot school was transferred to Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas. Even though this was a training program, the women were required to be already in possession of pilot ...