Gale Ann Gordon, MSC, USNR (born 1942) is an American experimental psychologist and naval aviator. In 1966 she became the first female Navy pilot to solo in a Navy training plane.[1]
Life
editGale Ann Gordon was born in Ohio in 1942.[2] Gordon gained a masters in experimental psychology from Michigan State University in 1965,[3] and was assigned to Pensacola Naval Air Station as a member of the Medical Service Corps.[2] Training to become an aviation experimental psychologist, she was commissioned as a member of the flight surgeon class at Pensacola in September 1965,[1] the only woman in a squadron of 999 men.[2] On March 25, 1966, she flew solo in a Beechcraft T-34 Mentor at Saufley Field. This made her the first woman in the history of the Naval Air Training Command to solo a Navy training plane.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Collins, Helen F. (July 1977). "Women in Naval Aviation: From Plane Captains to Pilots" (PDF). Naval Aviation News: 9–18. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
- ^ a b c Commire, Anne; Klezmer, Deborah, eds. (2006). "Gordon, Gale Ann (1942–)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages.
- ^ Gordon, Gale Ann (1965). The partial reinforcement effect in a within-subjects design (MA). Michigan State University. doi:10.25335/M55Q4RM30.
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