I've posted some links to some aviation images on another PPRUNE thread recently and for anyone interested, there is a newspaper clipping on Nancy Bird from The Sunday Telegraph October 1961 which describes her as "the mother of 2 teenagers in her suburban home".
Pictures by rampdoggie - Photobucket
I guess it took us a while to realize what a trailblazer she really was. How many Aussies realise that we didn't get our first female commercial airline pilot until 1979, when Debbie Wardley beat Ansett in the High Court for the right to fly "with the boys". She then went on in 1985 to become the first Aussie female to crew an international flight as the FO on an Ansett B737 Sydney-Brisbane-Vila.
Who can tell us where she is now, and how her career progressed?
Debbie are you there?