Women In Aviation: Female Pilot Achievers

In the world of Aviation if you think just because your a man you can have your way as an aviator. Think again! Unlike before aviation is fast growing with women Pilots or Aviatrices. You would have to work twice as hard inorder to break the ground breaking records our women of today are setting.
As of 2010, just over 7% of certified civilian pilots (both private and commercial) in the United States were women.
Let's see the Pioneer Pilots, of the past, present and future.

Above is Captain Berverly Burns !st woman to captain a Boeing 747
-Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910; Belgian,
-Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race (1910), and first woman to pilot a seaplane (1912); French,
-Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the
North Sea in a balloon (October 26, 1909) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions (1915); Russian,
-Eugenie Shakhovskaya was the first female military pilot; American,
-Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane; American
-Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932);
-Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot (1921);
-German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline (1927);
-Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program; and the British
-Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia (1930).
-Valérie André, a French neurosurgeon and member of the French army, became the first woman to fly a helicopter in combat, while serving in Indochina (1945).
-Jean Batten, a New Zealander, made a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world, including, in 1936, the first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand.
-Sabiha Gökçen, born in 1913, Turkey, became the world's first female fighter pilot at the age of 23. She is also turkey's first female pilot.
In 1979, a Jamaican, Maria Ziadie-Haddad, became one of the first women in the Western Hemisphere to become a commercial jet airline pilot when she was hired by Air Jamaica 1968 Ltd as a B727 Second Office
In Japan, the first female captain for commercial passenger flights was Ari Fuji, who began flying as captain for
JAL Express in July 2010. Fuji was rejected from admission to Japanese pilot training school on the grounds of being too small (155 cm; standard was previously 163 cm, currently 158 cm as of spring 2010), so she got her pilot's license in the United States. There are currently a few other female pilots in Japan, though, as of 2010, no others in a captain role.
Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi is the first
Saudi woman to become a commercial airline pilot
The Israeli Air Force's flight academy is open to female pilots. 24 female pilots have completed the course as of 2011.

In Nigeria, Captain Chinyere kalu is the 1st female pilot in Nigeria, currently heads the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology NCAT.

Adebule imoleye is the youngest licenced commericial airline pilot at 23,

Blessing Liman Nigerian Airforce first female fighter pilot, 25yrs old.

Kimberly Anyadike a born and based in the US is a Nigerian, she is known as the first African American teen to fly across the United States. She flew from
Compton, California to Newport News, Virginia in 2009. It took her 13 days to complete the flight The miles flown were 2,342miles. The plane used was a Cessna C-172. She was accompanied by safety pilot Ronnell Norman, a certified commercial pilot and Major Levi H. Thornhill, a retired U.S. Air Force pilot who at age 87, is a member of the elite
Tuskegee Airmen who flew during world war II.
One of my personal favourite woman achiever who i would proudly say i'm in contact with is Karlene Petitte although i have not meet her in person, yet, but she is one of the leading women in aviation in the USA she is type rated on a B727, B747, B747-400, B757, B767, and A330. Visit her blog karlenepetitt.blogspot.com for more about kerlene petitte her remarkable achievements and incredible donations towards aviation especially women, and drop your comments.
Never Underestimate a woman!!!