The Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame has released a 50th anniversary documentary about Emily Howell Warner who become the first female pilot hired by Frontier Airlines in 1973.
“Emily not only opened the flight deck for women airline pilots, she invited us to join her,” said Captain Donna Miller.
“Emily Howell Warner: Pushing Frontiers in the Sky” is available now to view online at Vimeo.com.
The 30-minute documentary was originally broadcast April 6, 2023, across Colorado through the PBS network.
The Great Colorado Women Season V documentary programs are part of the mission of the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame to inspire future leaders and share the stories of trailblazing women, according to officials.
I. Think it is good that she is mentioned as “the first”. i know, I know, all of the white guys’ve done it before, but in a profession that that was and is mainly about white guys,I think she deserves the recognition. And yes, I am About as white ad they come.
Who was America’s first female IA? Susan Dusenbury of Gerorgetown, SC, current president of the Vintage Aircraft Association division of the EAA. The point here is, Susan, a friend of mine, would not want to be known as the first female IA, but as a good IA, and a good pilot. She flew cargo jets for years but no one made a documentary on her. I doubt she would have agreed to this anyway. Her modesty is why she is highly respected among her peers in maintenance and in the cockpit. Her expertise at vintage and antique aircraft restorations and good people skills is why she is head of the VAA, not because she is a woman. Kudos to GAN for allowing its readers to air all opinions, especially from those of us who believe PC wokeness has no place in aviation. It gets people killed.
I hate this sort of PC bull, where we are told to bow to the FB2, FW2, Ftrans2, etc. If someone does something truly exceptional, then definitely write about it. I doubt that anyone cares who happened to be first in line for a particular position. Someone has to be first, but just being picked to be first does not mean the person is necessarily exceptional in any respect. A good friend of mine recently passed on. Throughout his whole career he was told to step aside so that blacks, women, lesbians, etc could be held out as the minority hire poster child. He was a liberal and he originally would claim that he supported his industry’s tokenism and blatant hatred of white men. Toward the end of his life he changed and was quite embittered about all of the denied opportunities he had missed so that some corporate moron could brag that they were the first to hire or promote some minority flavor-of-the-month.
Merit based recruiting, hiring and promotion is the only way America will return to prosperity.
Amen. White guys could fill books with anecdotes of reverse discrimination in our nation, but would be ignored. I recently spoke with a retired airline pilot friend who described what happened when his airline decided they needed a female minority in the cockpit, decades ago. It went very bad and the person was “promoted” to a desk job. United Airlines seems intent on excluding white males from its new flight training program. Good luck with that. No way will I fly in an airline that prefers a hyphenated pilot over a skilled, mature one. Go woke, go broke.
Tottaly agree with You. Kudos to Yours comment.
And Kudos to You, also, Kent Misegades.