Google Egypt is celebrating the birthday of Lotfia El-Nadi, the first Egyptian and African female aviator. An image of the pilot wearing an aviator helmet appears on Google Egypt’s homepage on Wednesday, what would be her 107th birthday.<\/p>\n
Born in 1907, El-Nadi made news when she became the first Egyptian woman to fly a plane solo from Cairo to Alexandria in 1933 in an international race.<\/p>\n
She’s considered the second woman to fly solo, after Amelia Earhart.<\/p>\n
After graduating from the American College in Cairo, El-Nadi’s dream got started when she heard about an aviation school opening in Egypt in 1932, the country’s first.<\/p>\n
She took a job as a secretary at the school and, without her family knowing, began taking lessons in secret with a French flying instructor, with the support of Kamal Alwi, the head of EgyptAir at the time.<\/p>\n
Alwi thought women pilots would be good publicity for both the school and the airline.<\/p>\n
She earned her pilot’s license after only 67 days of training, at the age of 26.<\/p>\n
In 1955, El-Nady travelled to Switzerland for medical treatment and lived there for a long time. She never married.<\/p>\n
She died in Cairo in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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