#womenpilots — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #womenpilots, aggregated by home.social.
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#OnThisDay, 3 Feb 1995, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle on a mission when she took the helm of #Discovery. She would go on to become the first woman to command a Shuttle.
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#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific in 1937.
#WomenPilots #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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July 2, 1937: Amelia Earhart vanishes over the Pacific. Her final transmission: "We are on the line 157–337." 88 years later, the mystery persists. New expeditions may finally reveal what happened to aviation's greatest pioneer.
https://theurb.co/amelia-earhart-mystery#AmeliaEarhart #AviationHistory #UnsolvedMystery #TrueStory #History #Mystery #Aviation #FemaleAviation #WomenInAviation #HistoricalMystery #LegendaryWomen #Pilot #FeministIcon #AviationMystery #WomenPilots #ColdCase
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#OnThisDay, 3 Feb 1995, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle on a mission when she took the helm of #Discovery. She would go on to become the first woman to command a Shuttle.
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#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific in 1937.
#WomenPilots #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 3 Feb 1995, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle on a mission when she took the helm of #Discovery. She would go on to become the first woman to command a Shuttle.
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#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific ocean in 1937.
#WomenInHistory #WomenPilots #History #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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"The air is the only place free of prejudices."
#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's licence, becoming the first licensed civilian African-American pilot in the world.
#WomenPilots #HigherFurtherFaster #WomenInHistory #Histodons #BlackHistory #HistoryOfFlight
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"The air is the only place free of prejudices."
#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's licence, becoming the first licensed civilian African-American pilot in the world.
#WomenPilots #HigherFurtherFaster #WomenInHistory #Histodons #BlackHistory #HistoryOfFlight
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"The air is the only place free of prejudices."
#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's licence, becoming the first licensed civilian African-American pilot in the world.
#WomenPilots #HigherFurtherFaster #WomenInHistory #Histodons #BlackHistory #HistoryOfFlight
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"The air is the only place free of prejudices."
#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's licence, becoming the first licensed civilian African-American pilot in the world.
#WomenPilots #HigherFurtherFaster #WomenInHistory #Histodons #BlackHistory #HistoryOfFlight
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"The air is the only place free of prejudices."
#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's licence, becoming the first licensed civilian African-American pilot in the world.
#WomenPilots #HigherFurtherFaster #WomenInHistory #Histodons #BlackHistory #HistoryOfFlight
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#OnThisDay, 24 May 1930, Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
Listen to Amy describing her flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWkAib0U3hg
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#OnThisDay, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.
She lands unexpectedly in a field in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her in the nearest village here: https://joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/amelia-earhart-in-ireland-solo-atlantic-crossing-may-21st-1932/
Watch newsreel of her taking off here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyzI
#WomenInHistory #Histodons #HistoryOfFlight #WomenPilots @histodons
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#Pilots Amy Johnson & Pauline Gower playing snowballs @ Stag Lane #Aerodrome #London 1931. Both @womensengsoc members, later flew for Air Transport Auxiliary #ATA #WWII, Gower as commandant. bit.ly/31mAYF7 bit.ly/3jtNGoL #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery #WomenPilots
#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia -
#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart lands in California, becoming the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.
#WomenInHistory #WomenPilots #History #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #Histodons