Name a Famous Lady Pilot

[Zak33]

In fact......who are the most famous female pilots in history?
What name's spring to mind?

[McMav]

Dangly Bob. Well when I flew with him he flew like a girl

[menthel]

Amelia Aerhart!

[Skii]

Hannah Reisch, Amy Johnson

[Zak33]

Amy Johnson

Know what her married name was?

[dkmech]

The following were awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union"

И.Ф. Сереброва (I.F. Serebrova) - 1008 вылетов(number of flights)
Е.А. Жигуленко (Ye. A. Zhigulenko) - 968 вылетов
Н.Ф. Меклина (N.F. Meklina) - 980 вылетов
М.В. Смирнова (M.V. Smirnova) - 950 вылетов
М.П. Чечнева (M.P. Chechneva) - 810 вылетов
Е.И. Реброва (Ye.I. Rebrova) - 890 вылетов

The following two were awarded the title posthumously after they crashed their falling planes into an assembly of german troops and vehicles:
Татьяна Макарова (Tatyana Makarova) and Вера Белик (Vera Belik)

http://www.a2m.ru/letgirl.html

If you want to find out more - I am always here. I just need a gentle kick up the arse to get going, as while i find all this really interesting I can't always be bothered.

Edit: women listed above mostly flew PO-2 light bombers, however there were a divebomber and fighter regiments too.

[TiG]

Know what her married name was?

Amy Mollison was her married name?

TiG

[Zak33]

I have a strange tale to tell. Nothing new there, Zakky always has weird stuff going on, normally in his head.
Well, on Sunday Rias and I were at my parents in Devon. We had a few drinks in the evening, and my Dad handed me some beautiful books on aircraft artwork that he had collected from a Flea Market. I talked about how much old stuff made me smile, and Mum wandered off to get a box of stuff that belonged to my fathers parents.

My Grandmother, my Dad’s mum, kept things.

During WW2, she kept a scrapbook, and lots of the things she’d collected were glued in. My parents handed me this scrapbook, and I found out things that have no bearing on aircraft or Hexus, and are of no consequence here. But I DID find a signed picture, in the front pages that looks like this.

Dad knew it was Amy Johnson, but only through scouring the Aircraft books in his collection, did we trace her married name.

As TiG rightly says...its Mollison



Yeah, its the same photo as everybody has of her. But its a real signed one

and the book we found it in looked like this.


The reasonI find this all so eciting is beyond even me to explain to you. For all I know it is a standard "flyer" of a photo. It might have been a Book Signing kind of thing. But it might not have been. Maybe my Gran knew the woman. Maybe she just met her. Either way, as you leaf through a 60 year old scrap book, reading letters to a Granny who I only knew as a child was a moment remember for ever, to see photo's of relations I didnt know I had, and then to find such a piece of History

[MA_Moby]

That's a wonderful thing to find, and a genuine signed photograph of that age is probably quite valuable - but more so the possible family association, that's proceless. Frame it, cherish it, never part with it. My dad met Adolf Galland at a luftwaffe dinner and Ginger Lacey in the RAF - but sadly never asked for an autograph, more's the pity! It is amazing the stuff you find in old scrapbooks. It's always worth looking out for them in auctions. They usually get overlooked as a bunch of mouldy paper - but if you take the time to open them up you find an real insight into peoples lives and times, all the important things they took the time and care to record for prosperity - and sometimes you find a real gem like this.

[Zak33]

it aint going nowhere, although I did get it scanned (bit fearfull of the bright light, but seemed ok) and hence its here

[TiG]

Very interesting mate, i found the certificate my grandad got given when he was involved in the liberation of Norway in WWII its pretty amazing to find these things.

TiG

[[MA]DanglyBob]

I may fly like a girl Mav....

But thats still more than twice the man you'll ever be....

[McMav]

Ohhh handbags

Real men fly jets

Joyriders and girls fly props now

[Skii]

Fair play Zakky - great find