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INTRODUCTION
"There is the world-old controversy that crops up again whenever women attempt to enter a new field; Is woman fitted for this or that work? It would seem that a woman's success in any particular line would prove her fitness for that work, without regard to theories to the contrary."
This statement made by the famous aviatrix Ruth Law in 1918 is still so pertinent for women today.
Women have definitely made progress through the years in aviation in the United States. The military is now admitting women to pilot training, though principally for cargo aircraft and helicopters. The U.S. Navy has a female pilot who flies a combat-type aircraft, an LTV A-7 fighter, but she is assigned to a non-combat land-based utility squadron, and it is doubtful that women would be allowed to fly in combat should another armed conflict arise. In the field of commercial aviation, progress is very noticeable. According to a survey by Frontier Airlines, as of February 1977 there were eighteen women flying for regularly scheduled airlines in the U.S. Five of these women were first

1) Air Travel, "Let Women Fly," Ruth Law, Feb. 1918, p. 250, Vol. I, No. 6.