Shigeno Kibe
Shigeno Kibe（ (12 November 1903 – 29 July 1980) was an early female avitor in Japan. Biography Born in Buzen, in east Fukuoka Prefecture, Shigeno Kibe and her family relocated to Namp'o, South Pyongan Province, Korea when she was three years old. She moved to Tokyo in 1923 and was admitted to Daiichi Aviation School in Yokohama. She worked for a shipping company while training at school, obtained a driver's license, cut her hair short, and wore male attire that she kept her whole life. One year after graduation from the aviation school, she obtained the third class aviator license and she gained popularity as "a beauty in male attire" who traveled to cities, maneuvered aviation and gave lectures at many cities, and They issued her bromides for her admirers. In August 1927 when Kibe became the first woman aviator licensed second class aviator, she planned to gain acrobatics license and applied to army aviation program which allowed civilians to join training. She arranged an interview with a commander at Kasumigaura Airfield of Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service, and he accepted her for exceptional ten days' probational trainee, and she obtained acrobatics license. That November, Kibe demonstrated aviation at three