Women Military Aviators

The “Striking a Balance” educational panel during the Women In Aviation International Conference in Dallas (March 8-10) is a panel of military and former military women who will tell their stories about how they managed a military job, family and raising children.  The panel is a learning opportunity for conference attendees who want to listen [...]

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.    

Colonel Sally Murphy was the first female Army pilot. She was recognized at a ceremony to honor her accomplishment. See more DoD videos at http://dodvclips.mil

  Navy test pilot Lt. Christopher Tabert takes to the sky July 27 in an F-35C test aircraft launched by a steam catapult for the first time. CF-3 is the designated carrier suitability testing aircraft, and is in Lakehurst for catapult and jet blast deflector testing. The F-35C is the carrier variant of the F-35 [...]

VA officials create women veterans’ call center.

Uncontrollable variables, such as weather, location, time of day or aging response boats and aircraft, presents every Coast Guard search and rescue crew with unique challenges. But, few cases present the confluence of obstacles the aircrew of CG6022 faced when they launched from Andros Island, Bahamas, last month.

by Tech. Sgt. Michael Voss 455th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs 3/31/2011 - BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (AFNS) – A team of female Airmen made history here March 30 when the F-15E Strike Eagles of “Dudette 07″ blazed down the runway to provide close air support for coalition and Afghan ground forces. The two-ship formation consisted of all females, [...]

by Stefan T. Bocchino 377th Air Base Wing Public Affairs 3/1/2011 - KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFNS) – After nearly three years of flight training with the Air Force, she recently became the first qualified female pilot of the CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. It started with pictures of aircraft in her grandfather’s home. Then it was on [...]

  By Staff Sgt. Christopher Flurry , 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Fwd) CAMP DWYER, Afghanistan — One of the U.S. military’s most seasoned aircraft has found a new purpose as a one-of-a-kind weapon for the Marine Corps in support of troops on the ground in Afghanistan. The U.S. military has relied on the C-130 Hercules [...]