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 ...
In 1972, trailblazing British pilot Yvonne Pope Sintes took off for Glasgow with Dan Air as the UK’s first female commercial airline captain. Over 54 years later, carriers are campaigning for women to ...
When Sony Rana got her pilot's license in 1988, she became the first Nepali woman to sit in the cockpit. Now, she has become the first Nepali woman to be certified to fly jets after she got her Boeing ...
When Captain Chresten Wilson drove by United Airlines’ training center in 1974, she turned to her mother and said she’d be there one day. At just 12 years old, she didn’t know being a female pilot was ...