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The next print issue of Australian Aviation, out next week, will see its biggest redesign and relaunch in years. In anticipation, we’re publishing some of our favourite stories of recent times online. Today, we give you Fight for Flight, an investigative piece written by reporter Hannah Dowling, who sat down with women across the industry – from academics, to advocates, to, of course, pilots – to better understand the barriers that continue to impede on women’s success in aviation, and brainstorm solutions. Find out more about how you subscribe, here.
Since as early as the 1920s, women and men alike turned their eyes to the skies, and dreamed of flight. Despite challenges and hostility, women of means flocked to obtain licences in surprising numbers. Australia’s first qualified female pilot, Millicent Bryant, received her pilot’s licence in 1927. And yet, we wouldn’t see a female airline pilot in this country until over 50 years later. Since then, women have had to fight hard for their rights to fly.
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