Flying is Female

Highlighting influential women and their contributions in the field of aviation! ✈️👩🏻‍✈️🇧🇷

[Flying is Female @FlyingIsFemale]

This, right here, is monumental and powerful. Amanda, you are monumental and powerful. 🪐 https://t.co/xMK0BAZVhk

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

✨ Weightless and limitless.

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

REPLAY: A New Shepard tradition

[Flying is Female @FlyingIsFemale]

@V4DER200D7 @anjo_tweet meu namorado fez essa animação!!! adoro sua tradução!! 🥰🇧🇷

[Whitney Lindsay @Linzwhitney]

This might be a bit silly, but I’m super happy/proud of this! Today, I got to fly into class c airspace for the first time AND I landed my little Cessna 172 at Austin-Bergstrom International! It was a great day ❤️

#aviationlovers #flygirl #pilot

[William M. Miller @Will_M_Miller]

On Duty Women Airforce Service Pilots
who died in April.

#WASP @WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

[William M. Miller @Will_M_Miller]

Her plane was hit once.
#WASP Beverly Beesemyer (44-W-6)
“I towed targets & they fired 50 caliber machine guns at the sock target I was towing”
(1918–29 Oct 2018)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

[William M. Miller @Will_M_Miller]

Pigtails Optional
#WASP Class 44-W-9
Lillian Glezen Wray
(9 Dec 1913–4 Aug 2013)
Anna Baron 44-W-9
(3 Oct 1913-Dec 1999)
Elaine Danforth Harmon
(26 Dec 1919-21 Apr 2015)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots @WomenintheAir

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

Happy Birthday Carrie Frances Fisher.🎂

the world will never stop missing you..... 💔

[Jeppesen ForeFlight @JeppForeFlight]

The days may be getting shorter but that just means more sunset flights😍 Share your best sunrise/sunset pic for a chance to be reposted
📷: @ flywithberger from Instagram

[Flying is Female @FlyingIsFemale]

@mbeaumoney88 This is such a happy memory, thank you 🥰

[William M. Miller @Will_M_Miller]

Coffee Break!
#WASP Margaret “Maggie” Gee 44-W-9 (left)
with friends at the Avenger Field Coffee Shack
(5 August 1923 – 1 February 2013)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir

[William M. Miller @Will_M_Miller]

#WASP Margaret Jane Ray Ringenberg 43-W-5
Her autobiography: “Girls Can’t Be Pilots.”
(17 June 1921 – 28 July 2008)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @FlyingIsFemale #womenpilots #FlyGirls @WomenintheAir #WWII

[William M. Miller @Will_M_Miller]

#Wasp Bernice Falk Haydu 44-W-7
“Pursue whatever it is you want, and you shouldn’t allow people to say, ‘Oh, you can’t do that.’ Just do the best you can"
(15 December 1920 - )
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @WomenintheAir #FlyGirls @FlyingIsFemale

[William M. Miller @Will_M_Miller]

#wasp at right is #The38 Gertrude Vreeland “Tommy” Tompkins Silver
Only WASP to disappear without a trace.
(16 October 1912 – 26 October 1944)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @WomenintheAir #womenpilots #FlyGirls @FlyingIsFemale #WWII

Others:unsure

[William M. Miller @Will_M_Miller]

#WASP Ruth Dailey Helm 43-W-2
Pilot license January 1939. Member 99s. Assigned: Love Field.
(29 December 1916 – 28 February 2015)
@WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @WomenintheAir #womenpilots #FlyGirls @FlyingIsFemale #WWII

[Air & Space Forces Magazine @ASForcesMag]

THIS JUST IN: @usairforce Removes Minimum Height Requirement for Pilot Applicants | Read more at https://t.co/V4bez9D2f9. #defense #aviation #AvGeek

[William M. Miller @Will_M_Miller]

Leonora “Nonie” Horton Anderson 43-W-7
Zoot Suit Model
Lt. Col. Air Force Reserve
Interred Arlington National Cemetery
(1 December 1916 – 20 August 2011)
#RIP @WomenInAviation @WomenMilAv8rs @WomenAtWar2 @WomenOfAviation @WomenintheAir @WASPMuseum @TheNinetyNines @NinetyNinesInc