Dora Jean Dougherty Strother was an American aviator best known as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and B-29 Superfortress demonstration pilot. She was a U.S. military pilot, human factors engineer with Bell Aircraft, instructor at the University of Illinois and helicopter test pilot for Bell Aircraft.
Jean Dougherty Strother, with E.J. Ducayet (right) and R.C. Buyers (left)
Women Airforce Service Pilots
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) was a civilian women pilots' organization, whose members were United States federal civil service employees. Members of WASP became trained pilots who tested aircraft, ferried aircraft and trained other pilots. Their purpose was to free male pilots for combat roles during World War II. Despite various members of the armed forces being involved in the creation of the program, the WASP and its members had no military standing.
The WASP badge
Elizabeth L. Gardner, WASP member, at the controls of a B-26 Marauder
Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) pilots, March 7, 1943
Fifinella, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) mascot, created by The Walt Disney Company.