Woman Pilot magazine profiling women involved in aviation

Historical film footage of the female pilots that were the WASPS.

WOMEN Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, a historical look through film footage.
Edited and produced by Nancy Parrish. Copyright 1998 Wings Across America.

Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 - 24 August 1979) was a German aviatrix who was once Adolf Hitler’s personal pilot, and was the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II.
For more information, see: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Reitsch

Hanna Reitsch, Nazi Germany’s celebrated woman test pilot who had flown the VI rocket bomb in sub orbital flight in the early 1940’s — 20 years before the first American spaceman — was actually history’s first astronaut.
Hanna started with gliders. Her passion for the air soon overtook her interest in medicine, and she left medical […]

Katha’s 23 years as a corporate pilot began at a time when few women flew for pay, muchless paid corporate flying.