In 2001, a good friend of mine (a fellow pilot) was about to give birth to a future aviatrix. I spent hours looking on the Internet for something, anything, to give a baby girl that had even just a picture of an airplane. For years, I had been buying my nieces anything in Pilot Gift shops that was even remotely
girlish, but I was getting frustrated that there seemed to be nothing specifically designed for girls.

I knew there were plenty of female pilots, plenty of male pilots with daughters, flight attendants, mechanics, dispatchers and other aviation employees and enthusiasts who must want to buy girls the same items that they were buying for boys, but in the styles that little girls like. I wondered how it was possible
that we had gone through 100 years of flight and were virtually ignoring our future generations of female pilots.

Since being a pilot is what I know, I started "Violet Pilot" in the summer of 2001. I unfortunately did not trademark the name, and a very similar name was subsequently registered by an author. This turned out to be very fortunate. I had received so much input from the general public desiring emphasis on other
aviation professions that I decided to use the name Girls With Wings. GWW includes current women in aviation fields, and the future ones. It also refers to encouraging girls to have wings no matter their dreams.

Please forgive my seeming bias towards pilots. I hope to include more aviation careers and hobbies, with the help of the rest of the aviation community. The parent company of the Girls With Wings project is Very Important Pilots, LLC, which has its own website, covering future speaking engagements and the
business side of running GWW. We see great things ahead for future generations in aviation.

We hope you will join us!

We are working still on developing a non-profit organization to continue education and scholarships.

Encouraging youth to achieve their personal and academic aspirations by emphasizing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, AVIATION and Mathematics) Education through a network of aviation enthusiasts.