LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — A Las Vegas pilot spoke to FOX5 hoping that sharing her families’ history can inspire other women in aviation.
Airline pilot Lauren Scott said this story starts roughly a century ago when her aunt, Mary Webb Nicholson, started her own aviation career.
Nicholson wasn’t only the first licensed female pilot in North Carolina. Scott said she was also one of the couple-dozen American women who joined the Air Transport Auxiliary in the United Kingdom during World War II.
“They were often cold, tired. They couldn’t carry charts and maps and things on board because it could be dangerous if it fell into enemy hands,” Scott explained. “But, I know that she loved it, because she loved flying and she was so happy to be part of the war effort.”…