North Carolina Aviatrix, Viola Gentry: The Flying Cashier

A photo-filled biography of a pioneering female pilot who became a champion of aviation for women.

Viola Gentry of Rockingham County, North Carolina, learned to fly in 1924—and quickly achieved greater heights. In 1925, the aviatrix took her first solo flight. The following year, she flew under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, and in 1928, she established the first officially recorded women's solo endurance flight record. She became the first federally licensed female pilot from North Ca...