Women in aeronautics
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Narrower terms: Women air pilots; Women aircraft industry employees
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Simpson, Anne -- oral history interview, 2016 January 13
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Interview Summary
Retired airline captain and Museum of Flight Trustee Anne Simpson is interviewed about her 37-year career in the commercial airline industry. She discusses her experiences as a pilot for Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines, where she flew the Boeing 727, Airbus A320, and Boeing 747-400. She also discusses her status as one of the first women pilots to be hired by a major American airline and describes challenges and accomplishments from her career. The interview concludes with an overview of...
Women in aeronautics
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Women in Aeronautics--General
Folder 1: "Famed Riveter in War Effort, Rose Monroe Dies at 77," New York Times, June 2, 1997"The First Women Fliers; Interesting Old Prints That Show the Real Pioneer Women of the Air a Century and More Before Amelia Earhart and Mrs. Lindbergh," no source, undated"Now Women Pilots Get Their Turn With the Airlines," Parade, June 25, 1978Untitled article written 50 years after the founding of The...
Yi, Soyeon -- oral history interview, 2017 November 28
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Interview Summary
Astronaut Soyeon Yi is interviewed about her engineering career and her experiences as the first Korean citizen to participate in a spaceflight mission. She discusses her academic work in mechanical engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) during the early 2000s and explains her motivations for applying to the Korean Astronaut Program during her PhD studies. Yi then describes her spaceflight experiences, including her training in Russia with Roscomos, her time...
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