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- Lady Mary Heath Lands a Royal Dutch Airliner at Croydon Airport, 1928 - In 1927 Mary, Lady Heath, became the first woman in Ireland or Great Britain to earn a commercial pilot's license. It allowed her to fly passenger aircraft like the Royal Dutch airliner she is seen here landing at London's Croydon Airport. A 1929 crash in Cleveland impaired her health, and Lady Heath died from an apparent blood clot in 1939.
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Lady Mary Heath Lands a Royal Dutch Airliner at Croydon Airport, 1928
In 1927 Mary, Lady Heath, became the first woman in Ireland or Great Britain to earn a commercial pilot's license. It allowed her to fly passenger aircraft like the Royal Dutch airliner she is seen here landing at London's Croydon Airport. A 1929 crash in Cleveland impaired her health, and Lady Heath died from an apparent blood clot in 1939.
- Model KLM Passenger Jet, circa 1975 - Diane Beers joined TWA as a flight attendant in 1965 but left to marry Richard Hill a year later -- a time when many airlines employed only single women in that job. Beers Hill continued her interest in the airline industry and assembled an impressive collection of memorabilia, including models and toys representing various carriers' airplanes and vehicles.
- circa 1975
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Model KLM Passenger Jet, circa 1975
Diane Beers joined TWA as a flight attendant in 1965 but left to marry Richard Hill a year later -- a time when many airlines employed only single women in that job. Beers Hill continued her interest in the airline industry and assembled an impressive collection of memorabilia, including models and toys representing various carriers' airplanes and vehicles.