Great women in aviation

 

The whole south west corner of the airport is being levelled for Industrial development.

Not only the south west corner, and it's so sad to see.

The green areas of the airport seem to be shrinking so fast and being replaced by buildings for commercial use.

One can't help but wonder, how if common sense came into the equation, they can justify profit over safety of aviation safety.

I can foresee another situation in the pipeline sooner or later, similar to the incident at Melbourne's Essenden, where the pilot of a King Air met his demise partly due to an industrial complex being built in an area which could have been used in an emergency landing situation.

New structures are popping up everywhere at Bankstown, which may be well and good for investors pockets until a situation arises where an aircraft deviates from a straight line along a runway.

I've never seen so many "heavy" commercial aircraft parked at Bankstown, and so few "light" GA. All the time the lease-holder will tell you that they are meeting their requirement to support aviation. They are turning the place into a transport inter-modal site - air and road freight.

OOPS!

Seems to be the main area for Pionair's BAe146 200 QT conversions and maintenance for largely night freight ops which I believe they contract to Virgin.

I saw 7 there a few days ago.

Regarding the topic old Sir Reg loved women in aviation??

Jean Batten

1933 England-India, Gipsy Moth

 

1934 England-Australia, Gipsy Moth

 

1935 England-Australia- England, Gipsy Moth

 

1935 England-Brazil, Percival Gull

 

1936 England-New Zealand, Percival Gull.

 

First woman to make a solo return flight England Australia.

 

First woman to fly solo to South America and New Zealand

 

First woman to cross the South Atlantic and Tasman Sea solo.

 

Read ' Alone in the Sky ' by Jean Batten

 

All our Kiwi mates will know her well

Jean Battens Percival Gull hangs in the Auckland Airport .

Quite a Woman!!!!!

Not one of the Night Witches, this one was a fighter ace from an all-female unit who shot down some of Germany's best:

England- Australia 3 times in a gypsy Moth? Having had the "pleasure" of flying one, I find that impressive.. Nev

England- Australia 3 times in a gypsy Moth? Having had the "pleasure" of flying one, I find that impressive.. Nev

The 1935 flight was England Australia England, that's impressive, especially for a young woman in 1935.

Jean Battens Percival Gull hangs in the Auckland Airport .

Quite a Woman!!!!!

I remember sitting in the upstairs lounge at Auckland Airport having a coffee, looking up and thinking how small that Percival Gull is. For a young woman to achieve these feats in such an aircraft in the 30s is quite remarkable given the lack of navigation aids, engine and fuel limitations, weather & long hours sitting in the cockpit with no visual references other than the sea and sun (if not obscured by clouds).

State of the art at the time. Percivals were good performers. Till GNSS and inertial came along or you took star and sun shots that's pretty much how everybody went places. Loop directional on radio station transmitters and weather forecasts and good planning. .Nev

I remember sitting in the upstairs lounge at Auckland Airport having a coffee, looking up and thinking how small that Percival Gull is. For a young woman to achieve these feats in such an aircraft in the 30s is quite remarkable given the lack of navigation aids, engine and fuel limitations, weather & long hours sitting in the cockpit with no visual references other than the sea and sun (if not obscured by clouds).

Makle or female, compared to what we have today, an astounding achievement.!. For women, more so because while there is still a way to go in terms of gender quality, it was far more dofficult for them them. I top my hat to her (and all the others above). They have done much better than me.. and I have arguably had much more opportunity!

Makle, quality, dofficult, top = Male, equality, difficult, tip.

FFS ='s Fat Finger Syndrome? Nev

FFS ='s Fat Finger Syndrome? Nev

Red wine is known to swell the fingers.

Madame MiG is worth a mention. Marina Popovich joined an aero club when she reached the minimum five foot height limit at the age of sixteen. After putting her age up to twenty two and battling the post war Soviet ban on female military pilots, she was accepted into a military flight school. She worked as an engineer and flying instructor, then went on to join the Air Force in a long career as a test pilot, reaching the rank of Colonel. She was the third woman to break the sound barrier and flew over forty types of aircraft, setting more than a hundred world records, some of which still hold today.