NEW SERIES: FEMALE FIRSTS

Hello ladies and gents this is the Viking telling you that today we are talking about a brand new series all about Female Firsts first in.

Aviation and Aerospace

• June 4, 1784 Élisabeth Thible First known woman to ride in a hot air balloon.
• 1805                 Sophie Blanchard First woman to pilot a hot air balloon.
• March 8, 1910 Raymonde de Laroche First woman to receive a pilot's license.
• 1910–1911 Lilian Bland  First woman in the world to design, build, and fly an aircraft
• 1912                 Harriet Quimby  First woman to fly across the English Channel.
• 1912                 Rayna Kasabova First woman to participate in a military flight during the Siege of Odrin.
• 1914                 Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya First woman commissioned as a military pilot; she flew reconnaissance missions for the Czar in 1914.
• 1915                Marie Marvingt   First woman to fly a fighter plane in combat.
• 1930                Amy Johnson   First woman to fly from Britain to Australia.
• 1932               Amelia Earhart   First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1933               Lotfia ElNadi First African woman and first Arab woman to earn a pilot's license.
• 1937               Sabiha Gökçen         The first military woman to fly combat missions.
• May 18, 1953 Jacqueline Cochran First woman to break the sound barrier.
• 1957               Jackie Moggridge First woman to become a British airline captain.
• June 16, 1963 Valentina Tereshkova First woman in space.
• 1963              Betty Miller                 First female pilot to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.
• 1964              Jerrie Mock                 First woman to fly solo around the world.
• 1973              Rosella Bjornson         First female pilot for a commercial airline in North America
• 1976              Emily Howell Warner First woman to become an American airline captain.
• 1978              Judy Cameron         First female pilot hired to fly for a major Canadian carrier (Air Canada).
• 1984             Svetlana Savitskaya First woman to space walk.
• February 1995 Eileen Collins         First woman space shuttle pilot.
• 2004             Irene Koki Mutungi, from Kenya First African woman to qualify to captain a commercial aircraft; she qualified to command the Boeing 737.
• 2005            Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi First Saudi woman to become a commercial airline pilot.
• September 18, 2006 Anousheh Ansari First female space tourist.
• 2009 Patricia Mawuli Nyekodzi Ghana's first female civilian pilot, and the first woman in West Africa certified to build and maintain Rotax engines.
• 2014 Nicola Scaife, from Australia Winner of the first women's hot air balloon world championship, which was held in Poland.
• 2015 Dalia Iraq's first female commercial airline pilot.
• 2015 Ouma Laouali Niger's first female pilot.

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