BESSIE COLEMAN
If during the 1920s becoming a pilot was quite an undertaking for any woman, imagine what would have been like for an African-American woman.
Bessie Coleman was born in 1892 in one of the worst places for a woman like her to pursue her ambitions:...
MARILYN AND THE AEROPLANES
How much do we really know about Marilyn Monroe? Who was Norma Jeane Mortenson Baker? How many of us know that her modelling and acting career related to aeroplanes? Platinum blonde hair. Angelic features. A profile able to turn the heads of sportsmen, intellectuals...
ELLEN CHURCH: THE FIRST FEMALE FLIGHT ATTENDANT
On 22 September, 1904, a woman was born in a small town in rural Iowa. She’d later make aviation history and change women’s role in the world of work.
Ellen Church was a child with a big personality and a head full of dreams who...