{"id":98899222,"date":"2019-02-26T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T21:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/?p=98899222"},"modified":"2021-02-23T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:40:18","slug":"african-american-aviation-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/african-american-aviation-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky-High Dreams: The 3 Groundbreaking African-American Aviatrixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barrier-breakers, obstacle-overcomers, and drawback-defeaters: just a few ways to describe these African-American aviatrixes that never let the challenges they faced keep them from pursuing their dreams. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first group of&nbsp;pilots of color to serve in the U.S. Army Corps. And as such, they have often been considered the emblem of how black aviators crossed countless boundaries and achieved many feats in aviation. But, before the Tuskegee Airmen, there was&nbsp;Janet, Willa, and Bessie &#8212; the three women that paved the way for them to make history.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Black History Month, join us in celebrating these trailblazing aviatrixes that soared through setbacks to reach their sky-high dreams by learning more about their fascinating lives. And of course, don&#8217;t hesitate about booking some cheap domestic flights to honor them by taking the skies your own way!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98899235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pioneers-of-Flight-One-Travel-Pictograph-1.png\" alt=\"Pioneers of Flight - One Travel Pictograph (1)\" width=\"800\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pioneers-of-Flight-One-Travel-Pictograph-1.png 800w, https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pioneers-of-Flight-One-Travel-Pictograph-1-120x300.png 120w, https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pioneers-of-Flight-One-Travel-Pictograph-1-768x1920.png 768w, https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Pioneers-of-Flight-One-Travel-Pictograph-1-410x1024.png 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Eager to take off too? Then look out for some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/flights\/domestic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cheap domestic flights<\/a> and let us know all about your adventures soaring the skies!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrier-breakers, obstacle-overcomers, and drawback-defeaters: just a few ways to describe these African-American aviatrixes that never let the challenges they faced keep them from pursuing their dreams. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first group of&nbsp;pilots of color to serve in the U.S. Army Corps. And as such, they have often been considered the emblem of how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":98899234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479,501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98899222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-history-month","category-trending"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98899222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98899222"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98899222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98906548,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98899222\/revisions\/98906548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98899234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98899222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98899222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98899222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}