Flight Lieutenant Joanne Mein, flanked by colleagu

ABOVE GIPPSLAND, AUSTRALIA: Flight Lieutenant Joanne Mein, flanked by colleagues of the Royal Australian Air Force's elite aerobatics display team, the Roulettes, rolls her plane during a formation flight over Gippsland, Australia 27 July 1999. After 2800 hours in the cockpit of the Air Forces's planes, 28 year-old Mein became the first woman pilot to join the RAAF display team and is also believed to be the world's first female military formation display pilot. (Photo credit should read AFP via Getty Images)