One of my first completely random thoughts was Božena Laglerová http://www.earlyaviators.com/elangle1.htm Whose name I couldn't remember at first. :P Just that she had that sort of Czech first name... There was a comics series about her in 1980s - later republished in a book of comics from that magazine, and that was how I learned of her. The Czech wikipedia page has a lot more info. http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C5%BEena_Laglerov%C3%A1 Kind of lost to history, actually, which is a pity. Nowadays you'd probably say she was a badass. Wanted to be a singer but an illness stopped her career. A man left her, so she went and became the first Czech female pilot. Had several crashes, survived, escaped from the Caribbean when a manager stole her money, kept flying. During WW1, she kept trying to be accepted as a pilot in the army, with the intention to desert from Austria-Hungary the way many Czechs did; could not because she was a woman. After the war, she was a journalist and a Parliament candidate (it doesn't say if she was elected). She'd make a great biopic if only she were not Czech. Oh, and I thought of that before opening another Czech article, which says the exact same thing. http://ona.idnes.cz/bozena-laglerova-prvni-ceska-aviaticka-na-kterou-se-zapomnelo-p6g-/vztahy-sex.aspx?c=A090226_132509_ona_telo_jup
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Whose name I couldn't remember at first. :P Just that she had that sort of Czech first name... There was a comics series about her in 1980s - later republished in a book of comics from that magazine, and that was how I learned of her.
The Czech wikipedia page has a lot more info.
http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C5%BEena_Laglerov%C3%A1
Kind of lost to history, actually, which is a pity. Nowadays you'd probably say she was a badass. Wanted to be a singer but an illness stopped her career. A man left her, so she went and became the first Czech female pilot. Had several crashes, survived, escaped from the Caribbean when a manager stole her money, kept flying. During WW1, she kept trying to be accepted as a pilot in the army, with the intention to desert from Austria-Hungary the way many Czechs did; could not because she was a woman. After the war, she was a journalist and a Parliament candidate (it doesn't say if she was elected). She'd make a great biopic if only she were not Czech. Oh, and I thought of that before opening another Czech article, which says the exact same thing.
http://ona.idnes.cz/bozena-laglerova-prvni-ceska-aviaticka-na-kterou-se-zapomnelo-p6g-/vztahy-sex.aspx?c=A090226_132509_ona_telo_jup