Aline "Pat" Rhonie Hofheimer Brooks (August 16, 1909 – January 7, 1963) was an American aviator.
Rhonie is also known for her aviation history mural which is now located at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology.
[4] Brooks was a Marine Corps aviator and was learning Morse code, which he shared with Rhonie.
[4] When they got married in 1933, they flew 17,000 miles in separate planes to their honeymoon, flying through various locations including the West Indies and Mexico.
In 1940, she took leave to raise money to build canteens for Allied pilots working at the war's front lines.
[14] After the war, Rhonie learned mural painting from the Mexican painter Diego Rivera.
[9] Her best known mural is a 126-foot-long (38 m), 1,400-square-foot (130 m2) fresco representing aviation history at a hangar in Roosevelt Field, Long Island, which has since been relocated to the Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology in Queens, New York.
[15] A collection of her papers was donated to the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in 2014.