Theresa Claiborne, a trailblazer in modern aviation ... Claiborne did not imagine herself becoming a pilot. She was only seven years old when she took her first flight, an international jaunt ...

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 ...