Nancy Bird Walton
Nancy Bird Walton, was a pioneering Australian aviator, known as "The Angel of the Outback", and the founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots' Association.
Background
- Born in
- Kew
- Educated at
- Brighton College, Manly
- Awards
- 🏆 Victorian Honour Roll of Women🏆 Officer of the Order of Australia🏆 Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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"As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane' … I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. …"
"Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it."
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Timeline
1915
Born
Birth2009
Died
Death
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