Women Pilots

From the National Library of Australia come these photos of women airplane pilots.

 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

  

 Australian Women Pilots' Association Air 

Reliability Trial New South Wales entrants, 1953

  

 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

  

 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

  

 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

  

Freda Thompson sitting in the cockpit of a 

de Havilland DH.60G-III Moth Major, ca 1935

  

 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

  

 Nancy Bird and Jack Kingsford-Smith standing next to a de Havilland 

DH.60M Moth (VH-UOZ), Mascot [?], New South Wales, ca. 1933

  

 Portrait of Begum Haroom wearing flying cap in the cockpit of a biplane, ca. 1953

  

Portrait of two aviators, one male and one female, 

being welcomed by five unidentified men, Bathurst, 1932