Who is the greatest pioneer of women's aviation?

Women were flying within a decade of the Wright brothers and were barred from most of it for fifty years after. Rank the ones who forced the door.

1. 1
   Amelia Earhart

   Flew the Atlantic solo in 1932 and turned every record into a lecture tour, a book and a clothing line.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Bessie Coleman

   Learned French to get the training America refused her, and earned her licence in 1921.
   846pts
3. 3
   Harriet Quimby

   The first American woman to hold a pilot's licence, in 1911, and the first to fly the English Channel.
   621pts
4. 4
   Valentina Tereshkova

   A textile worker and amateur parachutist who became the first woman in space in 1963.
   538pts
5. 5
   Willa Brown

   The first Black woman to earn a commercial licence in the United States and to hold a US officer's commission.
   440pts
6. 6
   Raymonde de Laroche

   The first woman in the world to receive a pilot's licence, in France in 1910.
   323pts
7. 7
   Amy Johnson

   Flew alone from Britain to Australia in 1930 with under a hundred hours in her logbook.
   323pts
8. 8
   Sally Ride

   The first American woman in space, in 1983, after a career as a physicist.
   179pts
9. 9
   Jacqueline Cochran

   Led the Women Airforce Service Pilots in the Second World War and broke the sound barrier in 1953.
   179pts