Well-mannered women were not supposed to engage in the daring and dangerous pursuit of aviation when a journalist named Harriet Quimby talked her editor into paying for her flying lessons in 1911.

Hanna Reitsch is definitely among Germany's most famous female pilots. During her lifetime she has flown in nearly every (German) aircraft conceivable, setting many records along the way. Yet her ...

In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin pushed to demonstrate its technical prowess to the rest of the world, ...

SMO — Before the Tuskegee Airmen or Amelia Earhart's head-turning escapades, there was Bessie Coleman. "The air is the only place free from prejudices," Coleman once said, and very few would know it ...

"Can we request 22 Right for 39 Whiskey?" the pilot asks into the radio. The four-seater plane — a Piper Cherokee 235 nicknamed "Balvenie" after a Scotch whisky — taxis slowly toward the right-hand ...

“There’s a saying out there: ‘If you can see it, you can be it,’” said Cheri Rohlfing, a nearly 25-year Delta Air Lines pilot. And it’s not common to see female pilots out in the world. Only 5.2% of ...