[1] Trained by Tex Rankin, an early aviation pioneer at Pearson Field in Vancouver, Washington, she received her pilot's license in 1934.

Hing grew up near Salem, Oregon,[2] and spent her school breaks working on her father's hops ranch.

[6] In 1927, she danced in the Portland Rose Festival alongside seventeen other Chinese-American girls, including her lifelong friend Lillian Lang and future pilots Hazel Ying Lee and Virginia Wong.

[9] Hing played the saxophone, and was accompanied by cymbals, drums, xylophone, trombone, and banjo.

[10] After three years of local performances, they joined The Honorable Wu's Vaudeville Troupe and took their show on the road.

[6] The band allowed them to travel America at a time when few jobs were open to Chinese-American women.

[12] Rankin had taught Native American pilot Mary Riddle and was interested in creating "a 'rainbow', all-female stunt team", though the group never materialized.

"[14] After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, Portland became the site of a Chinese-American flying school, with the aim of training students to become fighter pilots in the Second Sino-Japanese War.

[6] However, he did allow her to buy her own aircraft,[6] a 1931 B-5 Kinner Fleet biplane,[16] which she used to perform in airshows up and down the West Coast.

[6] She once made a surprise visit to her brother and sister-in-law's farm in Aurora, Oregon, landing her plane in their wheat field.

[20] During World War II, Hing worked at the Portland Air Base, checking and repairing flight instruments.

[17] She also enlisted in the West Coast Civil Air Patrol to fly reconnaissance missions.

[12] After the internment of Japanese Americans, Hing and many other Chinese-Americans began wearing buttons identifying them as Chinese.

[6] Hing worked there as a switchboard operator and hat check girl until she retired in her sixties.

"[6] Hing was general manager of the Chung Wah Hoopers, Portland Chinatown's all-girl basketball team, which played an annual benefit game to raise money for poor and elderly Chinese-Americans to buy food.

"[6] In addition to her aviation career, she "sold insurance, had her own watch-repair business and was a professional photographer.