aviatrix

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It is still legally named Bob Hope, after the entertainer, and not, to my perpetual surprise, for the aviatrix who helped to put it on the map, Amelia Earhart.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

And according to Sammie Morris, archivist of the Earhart collection at Purdue University, they will cast the aviatrix in a new light.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2021

On this date in 1915, aviatrix Katherine Stinson dropped Arizona’s first official air mail letters near the Tucson Post Office.

From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2017

A line of chatter about a pioneering aviatrix runs through the season opener.

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2012

In making the turn the monoplane flown by the Cuban aviatrix could not negotiate it at as sharp an angle as Peggy's machine, owing to its not being equipped with an equalizing, or stability device.

From The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly by Burnham, Margaret