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Collins Aerospace in Kilkeel recently hosted its annual ‘Introduce a Girl to Engineering’ event, which encourages female students to pursue careers in STEM. Pictured is the company’s STEM council, which organised and executed the event that welcomed over 25 local female students to the facility.

Press Release: ‘Introduce a Girl to Engineering’ returns to Collins

Collins Aerospace in Kilkeel is continuing in its pursuit to encourage more female students to pursue a career in engineering with the retur... Continue Reading

World's Last Remaining Lockheed Electra 10-E Image: Dimensional Innovations/The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum

Inside the new Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum in Kansas

Iconic aviator, aviation record-setter, and author Amelia Earhart is celebrated in her hometown of Atchison, Kansas with a birthplace museum... Continue Reading

Two female students, Nicole Jackson and Olivia Rassmussen are in the cockpit.

Contest helps Wisconsin high school fund airplane-building program

The aviation industry is not alone in struggling to attract and recruit young people but it does have an advantage over other STEM industrie... Continue Reading

Shaesta Waiz is standing in front of her Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft.

Record-setting American aviator Shaesta Waiz on ignoring the naysayers

Afghan refugee Shaesta Waiz, who in 2017 became the youngest woman at that time to fly solo around the world in a single-engine aircraft, fa... Continue Reading

A man hooks up an aircraft tub on the ground at Farnborough Airport.

Farnborough Airport, Gulfstream work to attract young people to STEM

On 16 October 1908, Samuel Franklin Cody crashed at the end of a 27-second, 1,390ft flight over Farnborough Common. The American pilot had c... Continue Reading

A young girl is sitting in a miniature replica of a fighter jet.

Engineer Dana Kirchmar seeks to inspire girls to pursue STEAM

SmartSky Networks’ Dana Kirchmar came to engineering through serendipity. Now she wants to get girls excited about engineering careers... Continue Reading

Pictured (L-R) are: Alice Ewert, Laura O’Hare, Gail Doran, Aine Cotter and Catherine Parr. All of the women are standing ascending a stair case with a bright orange wall behind them.

Press Release: Female execs at Collins in County Down make their mark

County Down aircraft seating manufacturer, Collins Aerospace has made a commitment to increase the number of females in leadership roles wit... Continue Reading

New statue honors Mary Golda Ross, a Native American ‘hidden figure’

The first known Native American female engineer and the first female engineer at Lockheed is being honored with a statue of her likeness at ... Continue Reading

Teshome says she never works a typical day at aviation services provider Krimson Aviation. Image of the executive at her desk taken by Krimson Aviation

Helina Teshome of Krimson Aviation flies the flag for women, diversity

Africa is vast: the US, China, India, Japan and much of Europe would fit within its coastline with room to spare. It is also extraordinarily... Continue Reading

The HUB FBO site includes 25,000sqft of heated hangar space, along with offices for tenant companies and all the usual FBO amenities and services. Image: HUB FBO

HUB FBO on leading by example to improve gender diversity

Back in December 2020, a press release from the recently rebranded and upgraded HUB FBO at Quebec’s Montréal/Saint-Hubert Airport, arr... Continue Reading

Davinci Jets first officer Caroline Colombo smiling in the Citation jet

First officer Caroline Colombo goes full throttle in aviation

You might say she felt the need, the need for speed. Cessna Citation 560XL first officer Caroline Colombo’s love affair with aviation began ... Continue Reading

Miami International Airport Air Traffic Control Tower on a sunny day

FAA encourages women and minorities to consider ATC careers

“If you can see it, you can be it.” This quote is often used by diversity advocates to explain why representation in industry is so importan... Continue Reading

A woman is being hoisted into the aircraft via a sling device.

Aerobility: helping disabled people find hope through aviation

Aerobility, a UK charity whose aim is to “offer disabled people, without exception, the opportunity to fly an aeroplane” on 29 M... Continue Reading

Orange, 3D statues of contemporary women in aviation, as seen through 9 March at Dallas Love Field. A starry sky is shown as a backdrop to the statues in this promotional image.

3D statues at Dallas Love Field celebrate women in aviation

A pop-up exhibit on view through 9 March 2021 at Dallas Love Field Airport (DAL) features 3D printed statues of contemporary women working i... Continue Reading

An image of the four female panelists in a Zoom call-like format

Leading women in STEM push for greater diversity in aerospace

The aerospace sector can enrich itself by welcoming people from diverse backgrounds, identities and lived experiences. It can ensure better ... Continue Reading