While women hold just 10% of the pilot licences given out in the UK, they could actually be more adept than men at handling high-pressure situations in the cockpit ...

While in conversation with author and journalist Mark Whitaker, author Becky Aikman talked about how the American women pilots who volunteered to ferry warplanes for the British military during World ...

Anh-Thu Nguyen, a 44-year-old pilot, died after her small plane crashed near Greenwood, Ind. on Wednesday, July 30. She was ...

At the time, Penney was a rookie pilot in the 121st Fighter Squadron of the D.C. Air National Guard, which hadn't yet had a female F-16 fighter pilot before.

Martha Elizabeth McSally, born in 1966, was the first female pilot in the U.S. Department of Defense to fly in combat, making her a figurative and literal groundbreaker.

Donald Trump has attacked plans to recruit more female pilots, saying passengers will be put in danger because women may not be up to the job. On Wednesday, the White House accused a United ...

‘He hadn’t really seen a female pilot before, as there aren’t that many of us. Only about 6-8% of pilots are female, and only about 3.8% are captains. There were even less when I first started flying ...

Women make up just over 20% of the Air Force’s active duty force, but of the 10,964 rated pilots in the Air Force, only 708, or 6.5%, are women, according to a 2024 press release.

Of the 590,039 pilots with active airmen certificates in the U.S. as of Dec. 31, 2015, under 7 percent were women, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

A new study has suggested that female pilots may be better than their male counterparts at handling stress during high-pressure flight situations ...