Women Pilots

Mary Wallace Funk is a woman of many abilities. Not only is she a talented aviator, she was also an expert sharpshooter and trained for the Olympic ski team. She graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1960 at only 20 years old with a B.A. in Secondary Education. She then became a flying instructor in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. She is also one of the Mercury 13, who were tested for space flight in the same manner as men, a test that women were then considered unable to endure. After this she became the first female Air Safety Investigator for NTSB and then went on goodwill flying tours around the globe.