Early Australian female aviators were generally active since 1927 when it became possible for an Australian woman to hold a pilot's licence and fly within Australia.[1] Women had participated in gliding, or taken a licence overseas, but they had not been permitted to fly a plane under licence within Australia. The first Aero Club in Australia was established in 1915.[2]
Florence Taylor was the first Australian woman to fly a plane, a glider built by her husband, George Augustine Taylor, in 1909.[3] Emma Schultz also went up in Florence Taylor's glider.[4]
Hilda Hope McMaugh, was a nurse who served with the Australian Army Nursing Service during World War I. She took a pilot's licence in England in 1919, and her achievement was recorded on film,[5] but McMaugh was not allowed to use her licence within Australia.[3][6]
After World War I, and with the historic flights of Charles Kingsford Smith and Bert Hinkler, however, the Australian's public appetite for flying and air races was whetted. Pilots such as Amelia Earhart and Amy Johnson, inspired Australian women to want to take to the air.
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^ abOffice, Digital Transformation. "Aviatrices – Australian women of the air | australia.gov.au". www.australia.gov.au. Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
^Powerhouse Museum (2002). "Powerhouse Museum: Model of Voisin-type glider of 1909, 2001". Aircraft model, glider, Voisin-type, cotton thread / paper / piano wire, as used by George & Florence Taylor in 1909, made for "Women with Wings" exhibition by Iain Scott-Stevenson, Powerhouse Museum, NSW, Australia, 2001. Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
^Pathé, British. "Nurse Becomes A Pilot". www.britishpathe.com. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
^Jennifer Ingall (25 December 2019). "Australia's first female pilot Hilda Hope McMaugh is a forgotten heroine". abc.net.au. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
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