Mount Royal University students aim to bring more women into aviation
The open house-style event allowed students to check out planes, speak with other students and connect with industry leaders.
#Canada #News #Aviation #MountRoyalUniversity
https://globalnews.ca/news/11719769/mount-royal-university-students-aim-to-bring-more-women-into-aviation/

Mount Royal University students aim to bring more women into aviation
The open house-style event allowed students to check out planes, speak with other students and connect with industry leaders.
#Canada #News #Aviation #MountRoyalUniversity
https://globalnews.ca/news/11719769/mount-royal-university-students-aim-to-bring-more-women-into-aviation/

Mount Royal University students aim to bring more women into aviation
The open house-style event allowed students to check out planes, speak with other students and connect with industry leaders.
#Canada #News #Aviation #MountRoyalUniversity
https://globalnews.ca/news/11719769/mount-royal-university-students-aim-to-bring-more-women-into-aviation/

"#Onthisday in 1903, Olive Ann Beech (née Mellor) was born in Kansas. She began her aviation career as a bookkeeper and secretary at Travel Air Manufacturing Company in 1925. She soon moved up in the company to become the personal secretary of Walter Beech, one of the co-founders of Travel Air Manufacturing Company. They married in 1930 and when that company was sold, Walter and Olive Ann established their own company, Beechcraft in 1932. When Walter became ill in 1940, she took control of the company, and when he died in 1950, she became company president, becoming the first woman to head a major aircraft corporation. She led the company through WWII, the space race into the 1980s. In 1980, the Raytheon Company acquired Beechcraft and Olive Ann was elected to the Board of Directors. " This was posted to our Instagram account on September 25, 2019 – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/instagram/1729356061/

"Massachusetts native Ruth Law (1887–1970) was inspired to fly by her brother Rodman Law (1885–1919), a parachutist and stuntman. She was refused training from Orville Wright (1871–1948) because he believed women were not mechanically minded. She eventually persuaded Harry Atwood (1883–1967) and Arch Freeman (1890–1918) to instruct her in Saugus, Massachusetts. In 1912, Law became the fifth woman in the United States to earn a pilot's license. During her flying career she set numerous records, including one for women’s altitude, and another for distance by either a male or female aviator in a flight from Chicago to New York in 1916. After World War I, she formed the Ruth Law Flying Circus and toured the United States. She retired from flying in 1922. “First Flights: Early Women Aviators and their Aircraft” is on display post-security in Terminal 3 and online at: https://bit.ly/3wzDwfL" This was posted to our Instagram account on August 16, 2022 – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/instagram/1880151513/

1941 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Air Hostess Postcard
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"United Air Lines produced this 1957 flight attendant employee pamphlet that introduces potential applicants to the profession. "You, as a United Air Lines stewardess, will have many of the same duties and responsibilities as if you were entertaining in your own home – making advance preparations, greeting guests and doing all possible to make them welcome. Your “guests” will include a wide variety of interesting people, possibly a business man from Bombay, a military family moving from New York to Seattle, even your next-door-neighbor. Visiting with passengers aloft, you will soon realize your position as a stewardess offers new opportunities to increase your knowledge of the world. As you say goodbye to your passengers when they reach their destinations, you will have a deep feeling of satisfaction and pride in your career as a stewardess." Image: United Air Lines employee pamphlet, stewardess, 1957. Gift of Eric Barclay. 2016.028.003" This was posted to our Instagram account on March 22, 2017 – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/instagram/1729359685/