Girls in Aviation event volunteers, from left, Loyd White, an Air Force veteran and former air traffic controller, his wife Kim White, a former special education teacher, and Hannah Prevost, a representative of Nashua Community College, pause in conversing about the college's air traffic control curriculum and related studies. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON

Milford aviation enthusiasts Michael and Kristen Lynch brought their young ones, Addison and Avery to the recent Girls in Aviation event where there was available a variety of aircraft to board, games and crafts to promote aviation careers and representatives from the military, from flying schools and from Nashua Community College, a local favorite that offers air traffic controller training. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON

Joanna Feltrin, left, and her sister, Lorena Feltrin, residents of Windham, take make believe closer to reality at the recent Girls in Aviation event by donning a space suit and a pilot's uniform, appropriate apparel for each considering Joanna at age 7 already has declared that she will be the First Woman on Mars and Lorena is considering pilot's wings. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON

The Dartmouth Hitchcock Advanced Response Team (DART) helicopter ambulance landed at the recent Girls In Aviation Day event with crew greeting attendees that included medical professionals, from left, Paramedic Susan Steckevicz of Bedford, Paramedic Selena Laterion of Milford, Mass., and Base Manager / Nurse Fayth Weed of Manchester, all of whom save lives by transporting patients to a network of Northern New England hospitals. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON

A gyrocopter, a Bell 407, a Piper Warrior and dozens more exhibits and activities designed to promote an interest in aviation drew hundreds to the Girls in Aviation Day hosted Sept. 27 by the Boston Chapter of Women in Aviation International at Signature Aviation in Manchester and at the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire in Londonderry. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON

Rylee Traxel of Nashua, whose mission at age 10 already is focused on becoming a pilot of military aircraft, admires as a part of the activities hosted during the recent Girls in Aviation Day at the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire in Londonderry, a 1929 aircraft — "The Doodle Bug," which was the first biplane, a flying machine built in New Hampshire. Photo by LORETTA JACKSON