When I first embarked on our project to collect information about women in air traffic control in general and then about the first women air traffic controllers in the US, I did not think about a fact of life that is the other inevitable thing besides taxes… Many of those first pioneering ladies have flown… Continue reading Margaret Sanders, ATCO – An example to follow
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A Lifetime of Chances
By Mary Chance VanScyoc Publisher: Parkwood Press, Wichita, Kansas, USA ISBN: 0-9649065-0-3 I do not know how many air traffic controllers have taken the trouble to write up their story (I guess there are not so many of them) but I am very happy that Mary did. Her book may look simple and the washed… Continue reading A Lifetime of Chances
Interesting people, unusual flight plans…
David Allen – Raised in an aviation family in an aviation town Dave was Chief Engineer, Crew Information Systems at Boeing What were you dreaming of becoming when you were a kid? I was raised in an aviation family in an aviation town. I was born and raised for 16 years in Wichita, Kansas. My… Continue reading Interesting people, unusual flight plans…
Women in ATC – Echoes from the past
The subject of women in air traffic control is dear to my heart for several reasons one of which is that I did play a small role in setting the scene for girls to be eventually accepted as ATC cadets in Hungary. The real achievement belongs to the ladies themselves who completed the fight but… Continue reading Women in ATC – Echoes from the past
Women in Air Traffic Control
My original article about the difficult road women wanting to become air traffic controllers (and commercial pilots…) faced in the early days seems to have struck a chord in several parts of the world. First there was Aminda’s lovely contribution from the Philippines then Evon Russel contacted me on Facebook with a link to an… Continue reading Women in Air Traffic Control