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Below is a limited list of online articles as well as TV and radio reports with public access online.

TV

Caroline Feraday reports on the centennial of Harriet Quimby’s flight (March 10, 2012)

Women Of Aviation Week at the Headcorn Airport (March 10, 2012)

Semaine Mondiale des femmes de l’air au Touquet (March 10, 2012)

Kirsten Brazier Interview (February 23, 2013)
Sky’s the limit (February 22, 2012)

Kicking off Women Of Aviation Week (March 4, 2013)
Celebrating Women Of Aviation Week (March 9, 2013)

Aviation DM s’implique dans la semaine mondiale des femmes de l’air (March 14, 2013)

Semaine mondiale des femmes de l’air (March 15, 2013)

Journée des femmes de l’aviation (March 12, 2013)

Pilote : une vie d’imprévus (March 8, 2013)

Women Take Flight Over Western Mass (March 11, 2013)

Women of Aviation Event Held at Jefferson Co (March 9, 2013)

March is High Flying Month for Women Of Aviation (March 9, 2013)

Pilots ‘Fly It Forward’ at Gowen Field (March 10, 2012)

Women’s Aviation Week touches down in Billings (March 8, 2011)

All female flight in Billings (March 8 2011)

A Birds-Eye View of Stevens Point (March 13 2011)

TV interview of Mireille Goyer, WOAW Founder (January 27 2011)

Pilots pitch aviation to women (March 12 2011)

Radio/Podcasts:

Sky’s limit (February 23, 2012)

Female Fly Zone (May 14, 2012)

Global Event Celebrates Women Of Aviation (February 20, 2012)

Female Pilot Friendly Yellowknife (April 9, 2012)

Calling all women with the flying bug (March 9, 2012)

Amy Laboda interviews Mireille Goyer (July 2011)

Written press:

Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week Seeks Volunteers (February 14, 2013)

Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week 2013 to focus on aerospace (November 15, 2012)

Frederick ‘Most female pilot friendly’ (April 18, 2012)

‘Flying Wild Alaska’ pilot to join Fly It Forward event (January 18, 2012)

Rally GA: Giving women wings (April 2011, AOPA Pilot Magazine)

‘Smiles for miles’: Maryland event takes 185 women aloft (March 16 2011)

Opening the skies to women (February 23 2011)

A Week That Supports Women in Aviation Around the Globe (March 9 2011)

Femmes pilotes sur la Manche (23 décembre 2011)
Aviatrices (24 janvier 2011)

Yellowknife “Most female-pilot-friendly” (April 8, 2012)

A week to celebrate Aviations’s Women (March 7, 2012)

Frederick Tops Female Drive (April 24 2011)

Yellowknife aims to keep its title (Jan 30, 2013)
The sky’s no limit (June 13, 2012)

Video helps encourage women to try flying (January 19, 2013)

Women’s questions about flying small aircraft answered (January 17, 2013)

The sky’s no limit – Girls fly two (April 9, 2012)

Women to recreate historical flight (April 8, 2012)

3rd Annual Women Of Aviation Week Kicks Off March 4 (February 18, 2013)

Tsawwassen pilot ensures women take off with aviation week (March 11 2011)

Cabin to cockpit: Women Pilots Show Girls New Dreams (March 6, 2013)

National Women Want to Touch the Sky (March 7, 2013)

Women, girls get a close-up look at aviation (March 8 2011)

FAU professor to relive historical flight across the English Channel (March 7, 2012)

Girls take wing at annual flying festival in Frederick (February 24, 2013)

To ‘learn, grow and fight’ (March 10, 2013)

Frederick dubbed most female friendly airport (April 8, 2012)

Local pilot works to introduce women to aviation (February 15, 2011)

Découvrir l’aviation au féminin (2 mars 2012)

Le baptême de l’air des filles (9 mars 2012)

Piloter, l’une des plus belles expériences de ma vie (9 mars 2012)

Pilote d’un jour (9 mars 2012)

Joint Base Andrew’s Women ‘Fly it Forward’ during Women of Aviation Worldwide Week (March 16 2011)

Free flights aim to inspire women to become pilots (March 9, 2013)

Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week celebrated (March 1, 2012)

‘If I could just get one girl to become a pilot …’ (March 12, 2011)

Calhoun Air Center awarded honorary seal (March 24, 2011)

Free plane rides for women, girls Saturday at Peterborough (March 6, 2012)

Flying In A Cessna Over Peterborough As Part of Women of Aviation Worldwide Week (March 17, 2011)

Bird’s eye view over Durham is revealing (March 17 2011)

Flying the Friendly Renton Skies (February 23 2011)

Arlington Airport aims to grow the ranks of ‘Women of Aviation’ March 11 & 12 (March 4 2011)

Volunteers at Arlington Airport share their love of flight with more than 150 women, girls (March 15 2011)

Females take flight over Frederick (March 13 2011)

Sky’s the Limit for these women (March 11, 2013)
‘Women Fly It Forward’ draws hundreds of potential female pilots (March 12 2011)

Thanks for giving girls gift of flight (March 19 2011)

Taunton flight school celebrates women aviators (March 9 2011)

Contest encourages girls to be inventors (January 9, 2013)

Aviation Week attracts female flyers (March 30, 2011)

Tsawwassen pilot organizes English Channel flight (March 28, 2012)

Local pilot gets pair of awards (July 4, 2012)

Sky-High adventures for females of all ages (March 10, 2013)

Girls fly too! (February 27, 2012)

Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week (November 28, 2012)

Grange-over-Sands woman’s channel flight will raise cancer awareness (March 6, 2012)

Headcorn Airfield to celebrate 100 years of women pilots (March 4, 2012)

Les femmes pilotes à l’honneur sur le tarmac de l’aéroport du Touquet (9 mars 2012)

Astronaut Pam Melroy (download hi-res)	Astronaut Pam Melroy (download hi-res)	Titusville, FL, USA (download hi-res)
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2013

2012

• 04/03/2013 – Aviation Records Fall
• 03/14/2013 – Over 17,000 celebrate Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week
• 01/28/2013 – iWOAW Announces a Social and Technological First
• 01/12/2013 – iWOAW Announces Its Newest Video “Women’s Questions About Flying Small Aircraft Answered”
• 10/07/2012 – The IWOAW grassroots initiative becomes a global not-for-profit consortium
• 09/10/2012 – IWOAW Announces ‘You Are an Inventor’ Contest
• 06/24/2012 – Founder of the Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week Initiative Receives Multiple Awards
• 04/04/2012 – More Than 1,100 Girls and Women Take Flight for the First Time
• 03/15/2012 – Pilots from Seven Nations Fly Together Over the English Channel
• 02/02/2012 – Finalists of the “Across the Channel: Women Unifying Nations” Video Contest Announced
• 01/29/2012 – Girls and Women Around the World to Discover Flying during Women Of Aviation Week
• 12/11/2011 – “Across the Channel: Women Unifying Nations” Video Contest for U.S. Women
• 4/6/2011 – Frederick Airport, MD, USA, wins the 2011 “Most Female Pilot Friendly Airport in the World” title
• 3/20/2011 – Several thousands girls and women discover that aviation is for them too
• 3/4/2011 – Pilots around the world get ready to celebrate the first annual WOAW week
• 2/13/2011 – Win $100 USD in writing, art, and photo contests
• 1/23/2011 – Celebrate the 100th anniversary of IWD, aviation style

• Backgrounder – Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week
• Backgrounder – ‘You are an inventor’ contest

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