page_title: Micky Axton
section_title: Boeing aircraft flight test engineer
hierarchical_section_title: Micky Axton / Boeing aircraft flight test engineer
caption_attribution_description: B-29 in flight.
context_page_description: Micky Axton was an American aviator who was a test pilot during World War II. Axton was "one of the first three Women Airforce Service Pilots to be trained as a test pilot" and was the first woman to fly a B-29.
context_section_description: Axton left the WASP program in April 1944 because her mother had taken ill. She applied for a job at the Boeing aircraft plant in Wichita, Kansas, and was hired to work as a flight test engineer. 
  In May 1944 Axton made an historic flight when she was the first woman to fly a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, a broad-shouldered, four-engine propeller-powered heavy bomber. The B-29 was one of the largest aircraft of its time. Axton recounts the flight, saying that the chief flight engineer "had me crawl through the tunnel and come up and I got to fly the B-29 for about 20, 25 minutes."
caption: Mildred "Micky" Axton was the first woman to fly a B-29
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