Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration appears in Omission accomplished: why the Iran-war cycle spins on through Wally Funk’s post-testing aviation career. The episode says Funk worked for the agency by instructing pilots and inspecting airplanes.

In this source, the FAA is not analyzed as a regulator. It is evidence that Funk remained a professional aviation pioneer even after gender barriers blocked her from the official astronaut corps.

Connections

• Wally Funk - aviation figure connected to the agency in the source.
• National Transportation Safety Board - later crash-investigation institution in Funk’s career.
• Gender Barrier Spaceflight - exclusion frame that makes her later aviation work important.