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

On this date in 1929, Lady Mary Heath, British aviatrix, stopped in Yuma during her aerial tour of the United States.

From Washington Times • May 24, 2017

So he proposed a barter exchange with celebrated aviatrix Florence “Pancho” Barnes: He would milk cows and shovel manure on her ranch, and she would give him flying lessons.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2015

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

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2012

And yet—this little madcap aviatrix disclosed a winning directness and simplicity which charmed and surprised him.

From Madcap by Gibbs, George