First female pilot in africa
First woman pilot in the world.
Maude Bonney
Australian aviator
Maude Rose "Lores" Bonney, AM, MBE (20 November – 24 February ) was a South African-born Australian aviator.
First female pilot to fly around the world
She was the first woman to fly solo from Australia to Britain.[1]
Early life and education
Maude Rose Rubens was born on 20 November in Pretoria, South African Republic, the only child of Rosa Caroline (formerly Staal, née Haible) and German-born Norbert Albert Rubens, a clerk and later a merchant.
She later adopted the name Dolores, shortened to "Lores" (pronounced Lor-ee) in preference to her given names.[2][3] The family moved first to England in , then to Australia in After education first in Melbourne, at the Star of the Sea Ladies’ College and the Cromarty Girls’ School, in Elsternwick, she then attended Victoria-Pensionat in Bad Homburg, Germany in to advance her music studies at a finishing school, becoming an accomplished pianist but suffering from stage fright.
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