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If Harriet were alive today… Elizabeth looks back at the event honoring her flight across the English Channel

March 1, 2021March 30, 2012

As I sat on the train from London to Headcorn, I was feeling apprehensive. Who would I meet? How would the event go? Would a lot of women show up? But as soon as I entered the door of the Headcorn and met the first of many female pilots, I knew I was in the right place. The first night of the event was mostly a mixer where pilots and passengers got to meet each …

Women did not always wear pants

March 1, 2021January 30, 2012

In today’s Western World, if you look around, you will probably notice that a vast majority of women wear pants. Well, in fact, the odds are that you don’t even notice anymore as women wearing pants has become the norm. It wasn’t always that way. In the early 1900s, women’s fashion seemed to be designed to inhibit movement. Long shirts dragged down to the floor while corsets limited mid-body movements. Piloting airplanes in these outfits …