Dr. Dora Jean Dougherty Strother, was best known as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots and B-29 Superfortress demonstration pilot. She was a U.S. military pilot, human factors engineer with Bell Aircraft, instructor at the University of Illinois and helicopter test pilot for Bell Aircraft. Strother held a PhD in Aviation Education. She was a recipient of the Amelia Earhart Award for academic achievement and was an inductee in the Military Aviation Hall of Fame. Strother was a 1987 inductee to the Texas Women's Hall of Fame. Strother was also a Whirly-Girl or a member of the International Women Helicopter Pilots, a member organization of the Helicopter Association International. [More at Wikipedia]

November 27th, 1921 in   /  Died:   Nov 19th, 2013 - aged 91