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An Air & Space Quarterly exclusive reveals the names of five pioneering women in military aviation.

Aerial combat has been a thing since World War I. These men and women have played a huge role on the battlefield and were instrumental off it too.

Jackie Cochran broke the sound barrier on May 18, 1953, flying faster than Mach 1 and confirming her place among elite test pilots.

The WASP Homecoming is being held at the National WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) World War II Museum, located in Sweetwater, Texas.

Col. Ruth Cheney Streeter served in the Marine Corps as the first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. She took up the positions in February 19

On that sleepy Sunday morning, Cornelia Clark Fort was conducting a civilian training flight when a military plane violated their safety zone as it flew straight toward them. The plane came so close

A traveling exhibition traces how the animation studio mobilized to support the Allied war effort

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), U.S. Army Air Forces program that tasked some 1,100 civilian women with noncombat military flight duties during World War II. The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) were the first women to fly U.S. military aircraft. WASP had its origins with a pair of exceptionally skilled and ambitious female flyers. Prior to the U.S. entry into World War II, Nancy Harkness Love, the youngest American woman to have earned her private pilot’s license until that time, h...

Just hours before her new NBC mini-series The Thing About Pam debuts, Renee Zellweger is going back to work for NBC parent company NBCUniversal.

When World War II broke out, hundreds of women took to the skies in support of the war effort. Many contributed as Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). However, women like Willa Brown who were barred from becoming a military pilot by both her race and gender, found other ways to contribute. These are the stories of five women who contributed to the war effort by flying.