Pioneering aviator Captain Theresa M. Claiborne has retired after 43 years of flying, first as a second lieutenant and the first Black female pilot in the U.S. Air Force, and then as a captain at ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Captain Theresa Claiborne, the first Black female pilot in the US Air Force and a captain at United. The following was edited for length and ...

He flew the P-61 Black Widow in World War II. Theresa Claiborne looks back on her outstanding career in military and civil aviation Boeing's 747 is big, but not so big that the forward fuselage ...