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Aviatrix Tattoo Redux: Amelia Earhart Backpiece

Posted on October 25, 2009

I completely realize that we have featured this fantastic black and gray back tattoo honoring famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart before, but in honor of the opening weekend of the movie Amelia by Mira Nair and featuring Hilary Swank, we decided to bring it back! It was an early post of ours and perhaps not everyone has had the chance to see this fantastic tattoo.

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While Amelia Earhart was certainly one of the most famous female aviators due to her celebrity and of course her mysterious disappearance, there are a great many more women who have bravely taken to the skies despite the considerable challenges they faced. Some of the notable aviatrixes on our list include:

- Harriet Quimby – First Licensed American Female Pilot
- Bessie Coleman – First African-American licensed pilot (male or female)
- Beryl Markham – First woman to fly Atlantic Ocean East to West
- Jackie Cochran – Record breaking female air race pilot & entrepreneur.
- Pancho Barnes – First female movie and stunt pilot in film
- Amy Johnson – First woman to fly solo from England to Australia
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh - 1st woman to fly great circle route, NYC to China
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) – First US military female pilots
- Valentina Tereshkova – First woman in space, USSR Cosmonaut
- Sally Ride – First US woman astronaut

Their own accomplishments should never be overlooked – and their pioneering spirit paved the way for many more since. Our editor even has a portrait tattoo of Jackie Cochran as part of his Bendix Trophy piece in honor of her win in 1937.

This fantastic tattoo of Amelia Earhart and her Lockheed 10A Electra featured here today was created by artist Collin Delgado of Baraka Naga Art Company in Seattle, WA. The tattoo took ten hours over three sessions to complete.

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