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Travel across the globe and discover four women pilots that were taking to the skies and setting records.

Brigadier General Charles E. Yeager, USAF (Retired) is considered to be the most legendary test pilot of all time, being the first human to break the so...

VAntage Point American Astronaut: Eileen Collins Air Force Veteran Eileen Collins is a NASA astronaut who was the first female pilot and commander of a space shuttle. Born in November 1956 in Elmira, New York, Eileen Collins remembers the moon landing when she was a child. In an interview with Smithsonian Magazine, she stated that after reading about the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts, she wanted to become one herself. In high school, she kept this goal a secret, aware that it might be a challenge to become an astronaut as a woman. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1978 and ear...

Scientific American Collins piloted the command module while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down in 1969 Print Michael Collins at Apollo 11 Command Module, practicing docking hatch removal from CM simulator at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, June 28, 1969. Credit: Getty Images Advertisement Gemini and Apollo astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon during the world’s first lunar landing mission, has died at the age of 90. Collins’ death on Wednesday (April 28) was made known by his family and NASA. “We regret to share that our beloved father and grandfather pa...

8th March 2021 Feature On International Women’s Day, Key.Aero explores the many women who have broken down barriers in aviation. Read on to find out which famous aviator’s couldn’t have succeeded without the help of their sister…   Beatrice ‘Tilly’ Shilling OBE (8 March 1909 – 18 November 1990)  On what would have been her birthday, there is no better place to start with our count of incredible aviation pioneers for International Women’s Day than with Beatrice Shilling. Educated at Manchester University, Shilling’s discipline was within the aeronautical engi...