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They soar into the desert skies, piloting some of the most sophisticated aircraft the world has ever seen. They have an innate understanding of high-performance aircraft and are always pushing the ...

Karen Ruth started flying airplanes before she got her driver’s license. The experience propelled the Burnsville native toward a long career in commercial aviation. She flew fishing charters and cargo ...

U.S. Army Capt. Elizabeth McNamara walks across the flight line on Camp Taji, Iraq, May 9, 2011. She is an AH-64 Apache helicopter pilot and platoon leader with the 8th Platoon, 229th Attack ...

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Marilyn Mong of Leetonia holds a photograph of four Women Airforce Service Pilots before a lecture she gave Saturday in the old St. James Episcopal Church in Boardman ...

Kathryn “Kay” Lawrence’s WWII service and sacrifice echo through her best friend’s family — and fuel today’s efforts to spark aviation dreams in girls. Kay Lawrence was the first female to earn a ...

A pilot trying to become the first Vietnamese woman to fly solo around the world was killed when her small plane crashed in Indiana. Anh-Thu Nguyen, a Vietnamese-born flight instructor, had just taken ...

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 ...

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 ...