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  Women pilots 29 August 2005  
Why are so few women taking to the skies?

Despite the fact that the first woman in the UK won her licence in 1911, today only 6% of licensed pilots in the UK are female with less than 3% flying professionally.

So nearly a century later, why are so few women taking to the skies either for fun, or for a living - and what makes a really good pilot?

British Women Pilots Association
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