Marjorie and Katherine Stinson were the first women to make a real mark in aviation. Marjorie, a legendary flight instructor, ran a flying school in San Antonio, Texas, and Katherine supported her sister’s flying school, the Red Cross, and Liberty Bonds with the money she made with stunt flying. Ruth Law, who came from a Read More…
Women have been involved with aviation since the Wright Brothers’ first brief flight in 1903. Although Katherine Wright didn’t fly with her brothers until 1909, she supported them both financially and emotionally, eventually becoming their social manager in Europe, and knew everything about the workings of their early airplanes. Blanche Scott claimed to be the Read More…