ABSTRACT
Women have flown aircraft since the eighteenth century, when Jeanne Labrosse first soloed in a balloon. Five years after the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Therese Peltier soloed an aircraft in the Military Square in Turin, Italy. Two years later, Baroness Raymonde de Laroche became the first licensed female pilot. In 1929, 20 women flew in the first women’s National Air Derby from Santa Monica, California, to Cleveland, Ohio, and Elizabeth MacGill became the first woman in the world to qualify as an aeronautical engineer (Wilson, 2004; Women in Aviation International, 2012).
