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The Australian Aviatrix

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Portrait of Nancy Bird Walton [Russell Roberts]
Dawn O'Mara sitting on the edge of the front cockpit of a de Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth biplane, ca. 1953
Portrait of Begum Haroom wearing flying cap in the cockpit of a biplane, ca. 1953
Portrait of Begum Haroom in the cockpit of a biplane, ca. 1953
Australian Women Pilots' Association scholarship entrants, Jean Lotter, Tessa Williams and Paula Stafford (from left) in front of Auster J/4 Archer monoplane VH-AAL at an airfield, New South Wales, November 1952
Australian Women Pilots' Association scholarship entrant Margaret Pines (left) is shown flight controls in the cockpit of an Auster J/4 Archer monoplane by pilot Jacqueline Smith at an airfield, New South Wales, November 1952
Marie Richardson and Grace Cavanagh next to an Auster monoplane at Bankstown Aerodrome during the second Australian Women Pilots' Association Reliability Trials, Sydney, September 1954
Australian Women Pilots' Association Air Reliability Trial entrants Meg Cornwell (left) and Margaret Sincotts in the cockpit of an Auster J/4 Archer monoplane on the tarmac at an airfield, 1953
Margaret Sincotts turns the propeller while Meg Cornwell sits in the cockpit of Auster J/4 Archer monoplane VH-AET on the tarmac at an airfield for Australian Women Pilots' Association Air Reliability Trial, 1953
Australian Women Pilots' Association member Nancy Leebold (nee Ellis) in flying suit holding onto an aeroplane's propeller, May 1954
Australian Women Pilots' Association member Meg Cornwell (second from left) and three other women having a picnic on a field next to Auster J/5G Cirrus Autocar monoplane VH-ADY, 1954
Portrait of Grace Cavanagh in an aircraft cockpit at Bankstown Aerodrome during the second Australian Women Pilots' Association Reliability Trials, Sydney, September 1954
Australian Women Pilots' Association member Meg Cornwell in the cockpit of Auster J/5G Cirrus Autocar monoplane VH-ADY at an airfield, 1954
Nancy Bird standing in front of her plane, New South Wales, 22 August 1933
Nancy Bird and Jack Kingsford-Smith standing next to a de Havilland DH.60M Moth (VH-UOZ), Mascot [?], New South Wales, ca. 1933, 1 / E. A. Crome
Portrait of New Zealand aviator Jean Batten standing next to her Gipsy Moth biplane G-AARB / Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail
Portrait of Nancy Bird and Jean Batten with unidentified boy, 193-? The Leicagraph Co
Portrait of aviator Jean Batten, near tail of aeroplane
Portrait of Jean Batten studying charts whilst standing on wing of aeroplane, 193-?
Portrait of Jean Batten
Jean Batten waves as she is helped out of the cockpit of her Percival Gull monoplane, ca 1935 / E.W. Searle
Jean Batten taking off from Richmond for New Zealand in a Percival Gull monoplane (G-ADPR), ca. 1930s
Freda Thompson sitting in the cockpit of a de Havilland DH.60G-III Moth Major, ca 1935
Nancy Bird Walton shaking hands with Elgar Thane [?] of Shell Oil next to de Havilland DH85 Leopard Moth biplane VH-UUG on a field, ca. 1933
Freda Thompson's de Havilland DH.60G-III Moth Major, VH-UUC, taxiing on an airfield during the South Australian Centenary Air Race, 1936
Mrs Lores Bonney overhauls her machine, a DH 60G Moth, My Little Ship, VH-UPV, at Darwin on arrival, 11 April 1933
Portrait of two aviators, one male and one female, being welcomed by five unidentified men, Bathurst, 1932 / Martin Studio
Charles Ulm and Amelia Earhart, Oakland Aerodrome, California, United States, 3 December 1934
Australian Women Pilots' Association Air Reliability Trial New South Wales entrants Dr. Dorothy Rutherford, Margaret Sincotts, Meg Cornwell, Alix Newbigin, Jacqueline Smith, Marie Richardson and Senja Havard (from left) stand in front of an Auster monopla