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Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed, Amy Johnson’s Gipsy Moth, and the biplanes that carried early exhibition pilots tell part of aviation history in their own right. These photographs show pioneering women beside or inside the aircraft they flew, from open-cockpit monoplanes to record-setting jets.

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Bessie Coleman with her Curtiss Jenny
Bessie Coleman with her Curtiss Jenny: Bessie Coleman stands on the wheel of a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny in her flying suit…
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Amelia Earhart in her Lockheed Electra
Amelia Earhart in her Lockheed Electra: Amelia Earhart sits in the cockpit of her twin-engine Lockheed Electra in a…
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Harriet Quimby in her Blériot
Harriet Quimby in her Blériot: Harriet Quimby sits in the open cockpit of her Blériot monoplane in 1911. The following year…
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Jerrie Mock with the Spirit of Columbus
Jerrie Mock with the Spirit of Columbus: Jerrie Mock poses with the Spirit of Columbus, a Cessna 180. In April 1964 she…
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Jacqueline Cochran with her F-104G Starfighter
Jacqueline Cochran with her F-104G Starfighter: Jacqueline Cochran stands in front of a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, with…
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Amy Johnson with Jason
Amy Johnson with Jason: Amy Johnson poses with Jason, her de Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth, in Australia. She flew it from…
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Katherine Stinson With Her Curtiss Biplane
Katherine Stinson With Her Curtiss Biplane: Katherine Stinson stands in front of her Curtiss-Stinson Special in 1917. The…
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Willa Brown in Her Airplane
Willa Brown in Her Airplane: Willa Brown looks out from the cockpit in a photograph preserved by the Smithsonian. She…
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Lotfia El-Nadi Beside an Airplane
Lotfia El-Nadi Beside an Airplane: Lotfia El-Nadi poses beside the aircraft she was about to fly in a photograph from…
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Lee Ya-Ching With Spirit of New China
Lee Ya-Ching With Spirit of New China: Lee Ya-Ching stands beside Spirit of New China, the Stinson Reliant SR-9B she used…
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Kiku Nishizaki Beside an Airplane
Kiku Nishizaki Beside an Airplane: Kiku Nishizaki poses beside an aircraft in this photograph from a local history…
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Sabiha Gökçen With a Breguet 19
Sabiha Gökçen With a Breguet 19: Sabiha Gökçen examines a Breguet 19. She entered Turkey’s military aviation school at…
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Pancho Barnes With Her Mystery Ship
Pancho Barnes With Her Mystery Ship: Florence Lowe “Pancho” Barnes poses in front of her Travel Air Mystery Ship around…
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Nancy-Bird Walton in a Gipsy Moth
Nancy-Bird Walton in a Gipsy Moth: Nancy-Bird Walton sits in the cockpit of a de Havilland Gipsy Moth during her training…
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Beryl Markham with the Messenger
Beryl Markham with the Messenger: Beryl Markham poses by the Percival Vega Gull she flew west across the Atlantic in…
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Elinor Smith in her Bellanca
Elinor Smith in her Bellanca: Elinor Smith waves from the cockpit of her Bellanca after landing at Roosevelt Field in April…
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Jean Batten with her Gipsy Moth
Jean Batten with her Gipsy Moth: Jean Batten stands by her Gipsy Moth. She made a solo flight from England to Australia in…
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Raymonde de Laroche in a Voisin biplane
Raymonde de Laroche in a Voisin biplane: Raymonde de Laroche sits at the controls of her Voisin biplane. In 1910 she became…
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Hélène Dutrieu in her biplane
Hélène Dutrieu in her biplane: Hélène Dutrieu sits in the open cockpit of a biplane. The Belgian pilot competed in distance…
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Louise Thaden in an open cockpit
Louise Thaden in an open cockpit: Louise Thaden sits at the controls of an open-cockpit airplane. She and Blanche Noyes…

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