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Mary, Lady Heath
Exascot, sounds like you're thinking of Mary, Lady Heath. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Lady_Heath
She was the first person to fly an open cockpit light aircraft from Cape Town to London. Later became the first woman pilot to fly for a commercial airline, with KLM.
It's the 75th anniversary of her Cape Town - London flight this year. A wonderful Lady, in all senses and by all accounts.
She was the first person to fly an open cockpit light aircraft from Cape Town to London. Later became the first woman pilot to fly for a commercial airline, with KLM.
It's the 75th anniversary of her Cape Town - London flight this year. A wonderful Lady, in all senses and by all accounts.
Está servira para distraerle.
Perhaps more than a trifle rough around the edges was the thirty year old Sophie Catherine who married her second husband when she was thirty and he seventy five. Born in Limerick and graduating in agriculture, she had an unnatural childhood, her father having murdered her mother. She died in London at the age of forty one, having mired herself in alcohol, after falling from a tram. One suspects that there was more of the Irish and less of the lady about this sad enthusiast of women's athletics whether or not she wore trousers in the cockpit.
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rcsa & cc thank you. I know of Lady Heath but I don't think it was her. It will have to wait until I get back to Bots in a couple of months and I can dig out the magazine.
Está servira para distraerle.
Rhodesia!
Then here is something that might be of interest. The champagne and cigarettes fit the bill.
Readers will notice that the historical passage is liberally besprinkled with words such as white men and kaffircorn, descriptive words in common parlance at the time and which in those days were intended to describe a state of things rather than to cause offence. It is to be hoped that readers of the article today will understand that these phrases in the context of their time were no more insulting then than it would be to the true lady to call a woman in trousers a one today.
http://rhodesianheritage.********.co...ypsy-moth.html
http://rhodesianheritage.********.co...ypsy-moth.html
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...8/CcVwylP9wZMJ
Then here is something that might be of interest. The champagne and cigarettes fit the bill.
Readers will notice that the historical passage is liberally besprinkled with words such as white men and kaffircorn, descriptive words in common parlance at the time and which in those days were intended to describe a state of things rather than to cause offence. It is to be hoped that readers of the article today will understand that these phrases in the context of their time were no more insulting then than it would be to the true lady to call a woman in trousers a one today.
http://rhodesianheritage.********.co...ypsy-moth.html
http://rhodesianheritage.********.co...ypsy-moth.html
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...8/CcVwylP9wZMJ
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Well done CC 
I was a decade out but this is the 'Lady'.
I searched high and low on the internet but couldn't find it. A very fine story.
I was a decade out but this is the 'Lady'.
I searched high and low on the internet but couldn't find it. A very fine story.
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Two of the many accomplished lady pilots (and their books) in East Africa,
Beryl Markham (West with the night),
Dr Anne Spoerry, (They call me Mama Daktari).
Others that come to mind, June S, Iris M, Heather, Tissa D, Sam R.. and many more.
Beryl Markham (West with the night),
Dr Anne Spoerry, (They call me Mama Daktari).
Others that come to mind, June S, Iris M, Heather, Tissa D, Sam R.. and many more.
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Somebody asked where I originate, I am US but I hold a Canadian CPL with some multi time and a non current instrument rating.
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In Nigeria, Bristow Helicopters and Pan African presently have 10 ladies flying helicopters, including Bell 206, 407, 412, S76, AS332L and L2. 4 of them are Nigerian with at least 4 more scheduled for or finished ab-initio training in Nigeria and USA. They have had several other ladies flying for them before who have now left. In the past they have also had ladies flying fixed wing aircraft for them also.
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I think there are quite a number female Pilots in most Airlines in Nigeria. Aside from Aero and Bristow, there are female pilots in Arik as well. To the best of my knowledge the current Rector of the Aviation school in Kaduna is a female Pilot.
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There is a canadian outfit flying CRJs and turboprops on a UN contract. They flew out of Khartoum and some other places...sounded like a good place to work.
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There is a canadian outfit flying CRJs and turboprops on a UN contract. They flew out of Khartoum and some other places...sounded like a good place to work.
That is likely Voyageur Airways. I get mixed feedback on them. Some folks like it a lot and have been doing it for years but others can't wait to get on to something else.
Returning to the subject of female aviators in Africa - have come across many in East & Central Africa. Met several Ugandans and Kenyans working for local operators there. There is an older New Zealander (Helen) who captains a King Air out of an airport near Jinja, Uganda (don't remember the field name - but that sugar conglomorate owns the place). She is a local legend for all her flight hours and accomplishments. Air Serv has had several and all were quite good and capable.
That is likely Voyageur Airways. I get mixed feedback on them. Some folks like it a lot and have been doing it for years but others can't wait to get on to something else.
Returning to the subject of female aviators in Africa - have come across many in East & Central Africa. Met several Ugandans and Kenyans working for local operators there. There is an older New Zealander (Helen) who captains a King Air out of an airport near Jinja, Uganda (don't remember the field name - but that sugar conglomorate owns the place). She is a local legend for all her flight hours and accomplishments. Air Serv has had several and all were quite good and capable.
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perceval: "The only place where I never heard a feminine voice ( Besides an Egypt air 320 F/O once ...) on the airwaves was in Lybia , although I did hear someone mentioning that there might have been one or two at some point (??) ."
There were two female FO's on Afriqiyahs A330 in 2010. Today I don't know.
There were two female FO's on Afriqiyahs A330 in 2010. Today I don't know.
