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The Allen Family of Aeronauts

RIAHOF — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 21:46:27 +0000

The Allen Family of Aeronauts: according to New York-based aeronautical researcher Chris Lynch, “If there was a founding family of RI aviation, they are it.”

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Mary Ann Lippitt

RIAHOF — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:56:06 +0000

Mary Ann Lippitt (1918-2006) was a descendant of an old and influential Rhode Island family that was very active in Rhode Island business and politics. In 1944 she learned to fly during a visit to Virginia, and was soon a skilled aviatrix. She worked as a flying instructor in Virginia and served in the US air postal service before returning to Rhode Island. She was one of about a dozen women pilots in the state.

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Martha McSally

RIAHOF — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 19:39:08 +0000

Retired Air Force Colonel Martha McSally hails from Warwick, and a Distinguished Graduate of the US Air Force Academy who became the first US female fighter pilot to fly combat missions, and the first woman to command an American fighter squadron.

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Jennifer Murray

RIAHOF — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 21:58:45 +0000

Jennifer Murray is the first woman to fly a helicopter around the world. The Providence-born Murray was also the first person of either gender to pilot a piston engine helicopter around the world and the first to do it without an autopilot. Perhaps the most astounding aspect of her aerial exploits, however, is the fact […]

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Eunice Standish Oates

RIAHOF — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 17:46:39 +0000

Eunice Standish Oates (1911-1981) was a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot) during WWII. When we honored the WASP from Rhode Island back in 2006, there was little information we could find about Eunice, the first Rhode Islander to join the WASP initiative. We were unable to track down her family, and learned very little about […]

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WWII Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)

RIAHOF — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:45:52 +0000

The Rhode Island Aviation Hall of Fame honored the four Rhode Island women who flew as WASP during World War II. These women are Phyllis Marsden Johnson Paradis, Bea St. Claire Smith Thurston, Ann Kenyon Morse, and Eunice Oates. The WASP program grew out of efforts led by noted aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran to integrate women […]

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