RESOURCES FOR WOMEN

AOPA WEBSITE "Learn to Fly": http://www.aopa.org/learntofly/

"BE A PILOT": http://www.beapilot.com/indexfl.html

DISCOVER FLIGHT: http://www.pilotjourney.com

WOMEN ORGANIZATIONS

NINETY NINES: http://www.ninety-nines.org/

WOMEN IN AVIATION INTERNATIONAL: http://www.wai.org/about.cfm

ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN AVIATION MAINTENANCE: http://www.awam.org/

TECHNICAL WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION: http://two.faa.gov/

WOMEN ORGANIZATION NJ BRANCH

NINETY NINES NORTH JERSEY SECTION: http://www.nynj99.org/

WHIRLY GIRLS: http://www.whirlygirls.org/

OTHER INTERESTS

GIRLS WITH WINGS (for young girls): http://www.girlswithwings.com

PATTY WAGSTAFF AIRSHOWS: http://www.pattywagstaff.com/

INSTITUTE OF AVIATION: http://www.aviation.uiuc.edu/new/html/organization/student.htm

HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN AVIATION FEATS: http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/history/article.asp?id=229

WOMEN IN FLIGHT: http://www.uh.edu/engines/womfly.htm

WOMEN IN THE ARMED FORCES: http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/women/womphy.htm

THE POWDER PUFF DERBIES: http://www.aerofiles.com/powderpuff.html

Home of the Chick Fighter Pilot and CFPA: http://www.fighterchicks.com/

FEMALE AVIATION FIRSTS

1798 - Jeanne Labrosse is the first woman to solo in a balloon

1880 - Mary Myers is the first American woman to solo in a balloon

1903 - Aida de Acosta is the first woman to solo in a dirigible

1908 - Madame Therese Peltier is the first woman to fly an airplane solo

1910 - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche, the first woman licensed pilot in the world

1911 - Harriet Quimby becomes America's first woman licensed pilot

1938 - Hanna Reitsch becomes the first woman to fly a helicoper and the first woman to be licensed as a helicopter pilot.

1941 - Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to ferry a bomber across the Atlantic

1953 - Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier

1994 - Jacker Parker becomes the first woman to qualify to fly an F-16 combat plane

1994 - Beverly Burns becoms the first woman to captain a 747 cross country and Lynne Rippelmeyer becomes the first woman to captain a 747 across the Atlantic.

Information from "ALTITUDE" The Air Victory Museum's Newsletter http://www.airvictorymuseum.org