aviatrix

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It is still legally named Bob Hope, after the entertainer, and not, to my perpetual surprise, for the aviatrix who helped to put it on the map, Amelia Earhart.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

On this date in 1929, Lady Mary Heath, British aviatrix, stopped in Yuma during her aerial tour of the United States.

From Washington Times • May 24, 2017

So he proposed a barter exchange with celebrated aviatrix Florence “Pancho” Barnes: He would milk cows and shovel manure on her ranch, and she would give him flying lessons.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2015

I see Lady Edith becoming a barnstorming aviatrix, but perhaps that’s for Season 4.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2012

In making the turn the monoplane flown by the Cuban aviatrix could not negotiate it at as sharp an angle as Peggy's machine, owing to its not being equipped with an equalizing, or stability device.

From The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly by Burnham, Margaret