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Heather Penney
United States Air Force officer
Heather Renee Penney (born September 18, 1974) is a defense policy expert at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies in Arlington, Virginia.
She is best known for her role as a USAF lieutenant who was one of two F-16 pilots who flew their unarmed planes in an attempt to ram and down[1]United Airlines Flight 93 before it reached Washington, D.C., during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.[2]
Early life
Heather Penney majored in literature at Purdue University.
Her father was retired Air Force Col. John Penney (born 1947), who served from 1970 to 1979 during the Vietnam War and joined United Airlines in 1979 and served until his retirement in 2007.[3]
Career
Air National Guard
Penney was the "only woman in her fighter pilot training class and the only woman in her fighter squadron", the 121st Fighter Squadron[4] of the District of Columbia Air National Guard, stationed a