An individualist might be a rugged John Wayne, a pioneer like Amy Johnson, a creative innovator like Kate Bush, or an entrepreneur like Richard Branson.
She and the other women pilots volunteered to fly in what was a time of great crisis in the United States and around the world. Women who knew how to fly airplanes wanted to become active in the war effort.
A famous woman pilot, when that was an unusual thing, who flew many places, I think on her own, not just as a commercial pilot, back in the early days of flying and vanished mysteriously and was never found again.
Never mind that Amelia Earhart is one of the most overrated historical figures of all time, not a great aviator, not even the best female aviator of her time.
In Christopher Strong, Katharine Hepburn plays an aviator who falls in love with a married man, and the film involves an out-of-wedlock pregnancy and a suicide.