Women
in Aviation International this Spring honored the "100
Most-Influential Women in Aviation," as part of a tribute to 100
years of powered flight. Some are non-pilots; some are
controversial; some are obvious -- but they are all important, in
the furtherance of aviation.
Whether you agree wholeheartedly, or think your favorite has
been left out, you can't help but give credit to these 100
women:
Jacqueline Auriol
Lady Mary Bailey
Pancho Barnes
Mary Utterback Barr
Barbara Barrett
Colleen Barrett
Jean Batten
Olive Ann Beech
Fiorenza de Bernardi
Marta Bohn-Meyer
Helene Boucher
Janet Harmon Bragg
Tiny Broadwick
Ada Brown
Ann Baumgarter Carl
Amy Carmien
Peggy Baty Chabrian
Willa Brown Chappell
Katherine Cheung
Julie E. Clark
Rose Clement
Jerrie Cobb
Jacqueline Cochran
Bessie Coleman
Eileen Collins
Rhonda Cornum
Lorna Vivian DeBlicquy
Amelia Earhart
Arlene Elliott
Mary Feik
Nancy Fitzroy
Cornelia Fort
Betty Skelton Frankman
Wally Funk
Jane Garvey
Betty Huyler Gillies
Sabiha Gokcen
Pauline Gower
Joy Bright Hancock
Jane Hanks
Gloria Heath
Jeanne Holm
Jean Ross Howard-Phelan
Mae Jemison
Nadine Jeppesen
Amy Johnson
Evelyn Bryan Johnson
Loretta Jones
Ann Wood Kelly
Teddy Kenyon
Barbara Jayne
Martha King
Raymonde de Larouche
Ruth Law
Moya Lear
Hazel Ying Lee
Margaret "Maggie" Gee
Ann Morrow Lindbergh
Lily Litvak
Doris E. Lockness
Nancy Harkness Love
Shannon Lucid
Beryl Markman
June D. Maule
Geraldine Mock
Matilde Moisant
Ruth Nichols
Blanche Noyes
Phoebe Fairgraves Omlie
Marion P. Jayne
Betty Pfister
Elsie Pickles
Audrey Poberezny
Harriet Quimby
Bessica Raiche
Marina Raskova
Hanna Reitsch
Judy Resnik
Helen Richey
Sally Ride
Eleanor Roosevelt
Marie Rossi
Blanche Stuart Scott
Elinor Smith
Jacqueline L. Smith
Cheryl Stearns
Katherine Stinson
Marjorie Stinson
Kathryn Sullivan
Valentina Tereshkova
Louise McPhetridge Thaden
Nancy Hopkins Tier
Bobbi Trout
Pat Wagner
Patty Wagstaff
Nancy Bird Walton
Emily Howell Warner
Fay Gillis Wells
Edna Gardner Whyte
Sheila Widnall
Jessie Woods
and Katharine Wright
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