Today’s Super Bowl LVII flyover will feature two F/A-18F Super Hornets, an E/A-18 Growler and an F-35C Lightning II — with seven female aviators aboard celebrating women in Naval Aviation. In honor of this achievement, I was inspired to create this piece to honor Judith Neuffer Bruner, one of the so called “first six” to graduate flight training and was the first woman to solo for the USN on May 10, 1973 in a T-34. She was on active duty for 10 years, and in the USN Reserve for another 18 years. Sadly she passed away in December 2022.
