aviatrix

plural aviatrices · plural aviatrixes

1. datedA female aviator.

   2018 summary of 2009 film Amelia From the time she first sits in the pilot's seat, aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) feels destined to achieve great things.

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   “... — Did you know that she was an aviatrix?” he interjected.

   1969, William Dana Orcutt, Celebrities Off Parade: Pen-and-ink Portrait Sketches, →ISBN, page 111

   The Women Flyers: From Aviatrix to Astronaut

   1987, Pat Browne, Heroines of Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 54

   Hariet Quimby, a writer for Leslie's Weekly, in 1911 became the first American aviatrix and won international accalim in 1912 as the first woman to pilot a plan across the English Channel.

   2001, Roger E. Bilstein, Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts, →ISBN, page 22

   In 1929 she turned an ide that she ‘stole’ from her son into a screenplay, Wings in the Dark, featuring a protagonist based on Ameria Earhart, the famous aviatrix with whom Shipman was acquainted...

   2002, Deena Mandrell, Deadbeat Dads: Subjectivity and Social Construction, →ISBN, page 307

   Synonyms: aviatress, aviatrice, pilotess