Dulcibella Atkey
The first woman to receive a British pilot’s license after WWI
The first woman to receive a British pilot’s license after WWI
Captain Mary Therese Klinker was a U.S. Air Force flight nurse who died during Operation Babylift, a humanitarian mission to evacuate orphans from Vietnam.
U.S. Air Force veteran
Turkish aviator Sabiha Gökçen became the world’s first known combat pilot at age 23, and went on to fly around 8,000 and participate in more than 30 military operations. Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in Istanbul is named for her.
The only chemical engineer in Northrop’s team designing the Snark missile, she worked on corrosion prevention systems for the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and Boeing 747.
American pilot
Pakistani engineer
Italian engineer, pilot and astronaut
The first woman to be a commercial pilot in India
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao is the second Vietnamese person, and the first Southeast Asian woman, to be recognized by Forbes as a self-made billionaire