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On 8 March, 1910 Raymonde de Laroche became the world's first licensed female pilot
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the...
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the University of Houston, complete with a 3-minute audio version.
The week of 8 March is also International Women of Aviation Week, celebrating all the female aviators (people are getting away from using gender-specific words like aviatrix that weren't necessary in English anyway), including Jacqueline Cochran, the wartime head of Women Airforce Service Pilots in the U.S. and who would go on to be the first woman to break the sound barrier; Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first African-American and Native American woman aviator and presumably the first licensed female pilot of mixed race to participate in air races and barnstorming stunt shows across the U.S. and Europe; Leah Hing, the first Chinese-American female pilot and who started her own flight school after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931; among many other women past and present who are earning their pilot's license.
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Two US Navy pilots shot down over Red Sea in apparent ‘friendly fire’ incident, US military says
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How did Scandinavian Airlines flight 751 survive after losing power in both engines just one minute after takeoff?
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Eastern Air Lines | Bankrupt
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Retired astronaut, fighter pilot, and engineer Chris Hadfield reviews aerospace movies and shows
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US senator and pilot Tammy Duckworth: anyone who votes to reduce the 1,500 hour rule for pilot training will have blood on their hands
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Drama in the snow: The crash of Scandinavian Airlines flight 751
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American UPS pilots won’t fly if Teamsters strike
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US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in thirty minutes – and kept it a secret for fifty years
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Scandinavian airline SAS announced that it has gone bankrupt a day after 1,000 pilots walked out on strike
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Airline pilots landing at LAX report "a guy in a jetpack" flying alongside them
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Boeing’s push to make training profitable may have left 737 Max pilots unprepared
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Why isn't there more discussion about the UFOs reported by navy pilots?
I normally never take reports of ufos seriously, but major news outlets are reporting on videos taken by Navy pilots and the news anchors seem to take it as a joke. Even if these ufos are just...
I normally never take reports of ufos seriously, but major news outlets are reporting on videos taken by Navy pilots and the news anchors seem to take it as a joke. Even if these ufos are just high tech government drones or weather balloons, you'd think people would at least be curious in finding out what these things are.
Around the office normally I hear chatter about the news and current events, but nothing about these ufos. Nobody brings them up. On discussion forums, talk about the ufos seems really sparse as well. Even subreddits dedicated to ufos seem to not care very much about these videos being on the mainstream news. Now with legitimate proof that there is something strange in the air, why does nobody seem to care?
What are the leading explanations to what these things are? One explanation I've heard for at least one of the videos is that it's a stationary weather balloon that only appears to be moving due to the camera on the plane moving. I can accept this explanation for that video, but what about the other videos? And what about the navy pilot testimonies? Is this all just a publicity stunt for History Channel's new show?
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‘Wow, what is that?’ Navy pilots report unexplained flying objects
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Frustrated pilots got Navy to stop dismissing UFO sightings
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Cockpit voice recorder of doomed Lion Air 737 MAX depicts pilots' frantic search for fix
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Ode to the 767
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Black box data reveals pilots’ struggle to regain control of doomed jet
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Why the world is running out of pilots
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Global pilot shortage hits Australia, with cancelled regional routes just the beginning
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Russian pilot found after three decades missing in Afghanistan
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