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After her husband's death in 1964, Peggy moved to Brisbane, Queensland and became more involved in the Australian Women's Pilot Association, first as Queensland president, then federal president from 1974–76. She was the Australian head of the international women pilots' association, the Ninety Nines. She was awarded an OBE in 1978 for her ...
Robyn Clay-Williams, one of the first two female pilots in the Royal Australian Air Force and the service's first female test pilot; Jerrie Cobb (1931–2019), first woman to fly in the Paris Air Show and to be tested as an astronaut [18] [19] Jacqueline Cochran (1908–1980), first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound [20]
Nancy Bird Walton, AO, OBE (16 October 1915 – 13 January 2009) was a pioneering Australian aviator, known as "The Angel of the Outback", [2] and the founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots' Association. [3] In the 1930s, she became a fully qualified pilot at the age of 19 to become the youngest Australian woman to gain a pilot's ...
Aviation is a male-dominated industry. Here's what it's like to be a female pilot for the U.S. carrier with the highest percentage of female pilots.
In 2014, Sutton was appointed as the Boeing 767 fleet captain, which was the highest position a female pilot had ever achieved at a major Australian airline. [2] The following year, Sutton became chief pilot for Jetstar Airways, a Qantas subsidiary. [4] She is the first woman to hold the position of chief pilot with an Australian airline.
Millicent Maude Bryant (née Harvey, 8 January 1878 – 3 November 1927) was an early Australian aviator. She was the first woman to earn a pilot's licence in Australia, Pilot's Licence No. 71, in 1927. [1] She was also first to receive her pilot's licence in the Commonwealth, outside Britain. [2]
Lynn Rippelmeyer is the first woman to fly the Boeing 747, the first woman to captain a 747 trans-oceanic, part of the first all-female crew, and first flight attendant to become an airline pilot. In retirement, she authored two books to chronicle her aviation journey - Life Takes Wings and Life Takes Flight and founded the nonprofit, ROSE ...
She was one of 1,640 pilots who resigned en masse following the 1989 Australian pilots' dispute. [23] She briefly returned to teaching and had her first child, Thomas, in January 1991. A biography of Lawrie was published by Allen & Unwin in 1992. In 1993 she moved to the Netherlands and joined KLM as a Fokker 50 pilot. In 1994 she became a ...