AVIATION Biography
Nancy Bird Walton, AO, OBE was a pioneering Australian aviatrix, known as “The Angel of the Outback” and the founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots’ Association.In the 1930s, she became a fully qualified pilot at the age of 19 to become the youngest Australian woman to gain a pilot’s licence.
Walton, Nancy Bird, 1915-2009. | Air pilots — Australia — Biography. | Women air pilots — Australia — Biography.
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- 216 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 22cm.
- Bibliography: p. 215-216.
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