Women Force

History tells that Harriet Quimby was the fist women licensed pilot in US 1911, but history forget to tell about Katherine Wright who was the sister of Wright brothers. She had as much to do with the first flight at Kitty Hawk as did her brothers but not in the U.S. military.



At the time of WWI Princess Eugenie Shakhovskaya and Princess Sophie Alexandrovna Dolgorunaya were become the first women military pilot in Europe.

Jacqueline Cochran in 1953 broken the sound barrier and set the record for the use of women pilots in military. Until 70s the military resist to take women pilots.

In 1974 Navy have the first women naval aviators and later in the same year army came forward to trained women helicopter pilots. In 1976 Air force plan to fixed the women to the pilot training program, but the women pilots were not worked in the war field that time. Not until 1993 were women allowed flying combat aircraft.

The first women pilot flew in 1911 but it took 65 years to recognize and another 17 year to permit in war aircraft. Afterwards every thing turn to good and in 1997 a dedication of women’s memorial is presented. A female Air Force Colonel Eileen Collins was the first woman to authority a space shuttle mission in 1999. Air Force B-52's and Navy Tomcats is being flying by women.

Major Marie T. Rossi give her life to while flying in the war area at the age of 32 on march 1991 she was the first female combat commander to fly in war zone.

In 90s Lt Col. Martha Mc Sally was the first American women who fly in the war and she was the top female air for pilot.

In the 2004 Air Force 19.6 % of the force was female.

Women first began toward the inside of pilot training in 1976, fighter pilot training in July 1993 and navigator training in 1977. Currently - 2005-06 - there are 568 female pilots and 210 female navigators.

In 2006 thunderbird team includes first female pilot and in England female demonstrator pilot on any us military jet.