From the National Library of Australia come these photos of women airplane pilots.
Australian Women Pilots' Association Air Reliability Trial entrants
Meg Cornwell (left) and Margaret Sincotts in the cockpit of an
Auster J/4 Archer monoplane on the tarmac at an airfield, 1953
Australian Women Pilots' Association Air
Reliability Trial New South Wales entrants, 1953
Australian Women Pilots' Association member Meg Cornwell
(second from left) and three other women having a picnic on a field
next to Auster J/5G Cirrus Autocar monoplane VH-ADY, 1954
Australian Women Pilots' Association scholarship entrant Margaret Pines (left) is shown flight controls in the cockpit of an Auster J/4 Archer monoplane by pilot Jacqueline Smith at an airfield, New South Wales, November 1952
Australian Women Pilots' Association scholarship entrants, Jean Lotter, Tessa Williams and Paula Stafford (from left) in front of Auster J/4 Archer monoplane VH-AAL at an airfield, New South Wales, November 1952
Freda Thompson sitting in the cockpit of a
de Havilland DH.60G-III Moth Major, ca 1935
Margaret Sincotts turns the propeller while Meg Cornwell sits in the cockpit
of Auster J/4 Archer monoplane VH-AET on the tarmac at an airfield
for Australian Women Pilots' Association Air Reliability Trial, 1953
Nancy Bird and Jack Kingsford-Smith standing next to a de Havilland
DH.60M Moth (VH-UOZ), Mascot [?], New South Wales, ca. 1933
Portrait of Begum Haroom wearing flying cap in the cockpit of a biplane, ca. 1953
Portrait of two aviators, one male and one female,
being welcomed by five unidentified men, Bathurst, 1932