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Nancy Bird 1933 on wheel of Metal Moth VH-VOP belonging to Tommy Petherbridge / by unknown photographer


Image by State Library of New South Wales collection
Format: Photograph

Notes:
Nancy Bird Walton was born in Sydney in 1915. In 1933, at the age of 17, she became the youngest Australian woman to gain a pilot’s licence. One year later she obtained her commercial licence. In 1937-38 she operated a charter service in Queensland followed by a 2 year world tour studying civil aviation. In 1950 she founded the Australian Women’s Pilots’ Association. She won the Ladies Trophy South Australian Centenary Air Race from Brisbane to Adelaide in 1936 and came 5th in the All Women’s Transcontinental Air Race, America in 1958. She was appointed AO in 1990. Nancy Bird Walton died in Sydney on 13 January 2009 at the age of 93. She was given a State Funeral in St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney on Wednesday 21 January 2009. The new Qantas A380 named for her flew over Sydney during the funeral.

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Image by cobalt123
Third of seven images of a mourning dove atop an old windmill in front of the Phoenix History museum in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. More fun with zoom, Z5 Minolta DiMage.

I liked the way the bird plummage so neatly blends in color and pattern with the weathered vanes on this old windmil.

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