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And there’s Isabella Sterling. When she was only aged 10, Sterling and her sister were members of a robotics club and went to a demonstration at Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport. The airport was hosting Young Eagles flights, which allow children aged 8-17 to experience their first flights for free, and Isabella signed up. Skiing and I Think to Myself What A Wonderful World Poster

“I think about a year later I started coming to Ninety-Nines meetings, and then in 2015, I started my flight training and got my license in 2018, shortly after my 18th birthday,” Sterling said. She relied on scholarships to help make lessons possible, and did her training out of a small airport in Liberty, Missouri. “That taught a lot of accuracy and determination for weather,” she said.

Sterling is now in her early 20s studying mechanical engineering. “I’m planning on getting that done and saving my money, and then after I finish college, applying for some more scholarships and hopefully getting some more ratings like instrument and high performance,” Sterling said. She was mentored in part by Willerth, who refers to Sterling with much pride, affection and a smile on her face.

The history of female pilots rooted in the heartland spans a time long before Willerth and her mother, well beyond Amelia Earthart’s fame, and has close brushes with flight beyond earth’s atmosphere.

Ruth Blaney, from Irving, Kansas, now a ghost town in Marshall County, was born in 1905. She took her first flight as a passenger with a stunt pilot at 15, worked at a general store and beauty parlor in Kansas City, married, had the marriage annulled, married again, divorced just two years later, and finally took flight classes and lessons to obtain her license in 1929.

Less than 24 hours after becoming a licensed pilot, Blaney began breaking records.

Her first was the women’s record for altitude, previously set at 15,718 feet, and she then progressed on to break the world record for altitude in a light plane when she soared to 26,600 feet. Despite losing consciousness for part of her ascent and flying a measly 80 horsepower plane (less than half the horsepower of today’s Ford F-150 pickup truck), she shattered the record previously held at 24,074 feet by a man.

Tragically, her accomplishments ended the way many pilots saw their careers end nearly a century ago.

 

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