Major Marcelite Jordan Harris
Maj. Gen. Marcelite Jordan Harris retired in 1997 as the highest-ranking female officer in the U.S. Air Force and the highest ranking African American woman in the Department of Defense.
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Colonel Ruth Lucas
During World War II, Ruth Lucas enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and became one of the few Black women to attend what is now the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. She transferred from the Army to the Air Force in 1947, where she stayed for the remainder of her military career.
Marilyn Bridges
American pilot and photographer who has taken aerial photographs in countries all around the world.
Mona Hirst
Engineer who started out as a mathematician.
Pauline Gower
Set up and commanded the women’s Air Transport Auxiliary in WWII
Kate Maslen
British aeronautical researcher.
Muriel Glauert
British mathematician and aerodynamicist
Jean Taylor
Jean Taylor was generally described in her lifetime as an entomologist but, although that was the source of her expertise, perhaps today she might be considered to have been an applied biologist or bio-engineer.
Hilda M Lyon
In 1922 she became an associate fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 1925 joined the Royal Airship Works in Cardington.
Ethel H Bailey
American mechanical engineer working from about 1917 to some time in the 1950s.