Women Military Aviators

Check out the link here from AOPA Online: ‘Gucci Girls’ fly Air Force tanker.  Details on an all-female KC-10 flight recently flown in the Middle East.    

Female Marines may face pull-ups for PFT – Marine Corps News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq – Marine Corps Times.

VA officials create women veterans’ call center.

Article on Marines.com: Prowlers serve MAW for more than 30 years.

Dear WASP and Families online: On Saturday, JUNE 25, 2011, the Carmel of Port Tobacco will host a CELEBRATION OF LIFE for Sister Teresa, also known as WASP Anita Paul, 44-W-6. The celebration of her unique and extraordinary life and service to her country is open to the public and will begin at 10am. For [...]

The Women Military Aviators, Inc. was formed by two groups of women pilots separated by 39 years of history. The first group entered history in 1942 because of the need for women pilots during World War II…the second group was initially comprised of women pilots in the military…

By WASP Bernice Haydu Our Hosts, THE GREATEST GENERATIONS FOUNDATION,  President Timothy Davis, Alicia Harms, Vice President of Communication and Jon Bunyak, Chief Financial Officer. WASP on the trip, Elaine Harmon, Shirley Kruse, Bee Haydu. From London our first stop was Duxford Air Museum, Cambridgeshire County,  about one hour north of London and 10 miles [...]

October 1, 1916 – April 10, 2011 By Barb Garwood, American Airlines pilot and one of WMA Founders Twenty nine years ago on Sept. 2, 1982, my recruit Karen Daneu and I, both Air Force T-38 instructor pilots, flew T-38A tail number 1952 (my birth year and favorite T-38) on a boondoggle four day cross [...]

by Linda Maloney The 1986 movie Top Gun inspired not only a generation of boys to follow in the contrails of “Maverick” and “Goose,” but many girls also determined to dogfight and soar high above the clouds in supersonic aircraft. A few months before my first son was born, I packed away my flight gear [...]

We are sad to hear of WASP Vi Cowden’s passing. Here are some news links with additional information: Female World War II pilot “will be sorely missed” Final Flight: WASP Vi Cowden