- Amelia Earhart, president of the 99's, women pilots’ organization, posing with 3 members for a benefit roller skating party held in 1933 to raise funds for a plane. Left to right: Earhart (1897-1937) often expressed that women can and must take on challenges. She set an example in her love of flying, as she said, "for the fun of it." Elvy Kalep, the first civilian pilot in Estonia, created aviation books and toys and is an artist and linguist; Frances Marsalis (ca. 1890-1934), racing pilot, set the endurance record of 10 days aloft; Betty Gillies (b. 1908) demonstrated and sold planes and was a commander in the WASPS.
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