First female commercial pilot was Helen Richey, who was hired by Central Airlines in 1934 but was forced to quit just ten months later due to aggressive male fragility; despite…

First female commercial pilot was Helen Richey, who was hired by Central Airlines in 1934 but was forced to quit just ten months later due to aggressive male fragility; despite proving she was fully capable of flying passengers through terrible weather, the all-male pilots union outright refused to admit her, and the government restricted her from flying during storms simply because of her gender; the airline eventually relegated her to doing public relations stunts rather than actual transport flying, completely wasting her immense talent; it perfectly encapsulates the historical corporate mindset: rather than utilizing a highly skilled professional to safely transport paying customers, they decided it was vastly more important to protect the delicate egos of men who were terrified of a woman parallel parking an airplane!