Comments on: Lores Bonney: Australian Female Pilot http://www.historynet.com/lores-bonney-australian-female-pilot.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Wed, 22 May 2013 17:59:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: F is for Fannie Bay Flying | Tropical Territory http://www.historynet.com/lores-bonney-australian-female-pilot.htm#comment-1004674 F is for Fannie Bay Flying | Tropical Territory Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:38:52 +0000 #comment-1004674 [...] decades to come, making a number of solo flights which created records. You can read more about her here, but how disappointing that she does not have an entry in the Australian Dictionary of [...] [...] decades to come, making a number of solo flights which created records. You can read more about her here, but how disappointing that she does not have an entry in the Australian Dictionary of [...]

]]> By: LIZ graham http://www.historynet.com/lores-bonney-australian-female-pilot.htm#comment-914913 LIZ graham Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:52:02 +0000 #comment-914913 lores passion for flying began after a flight in a dh-6og gypsey moth lores passion for flying began after a flight in a dh-6og gypsey moth

]]> By: LIZ http://www.historynet.com/lores-bonney-australian-female-pilot.htm#comment-914896 LIZ Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:42:04 +0000 #comment-914896 OK I WILL BE 140 THEN THAT SHOULD BE FUN OK I WILL BE 140 THEN THAT SHOULD BE FUN

]]> By: Celebrating the Australian Aviatrix Lores Bonney « Inside the collection – Powerhouse Museum http://www.historynet.com/lores-bonney-australian-female-pilot.htm#comment-791771 Celebrating the Australian Aviatrix Lores Bonney « Inside the collection – Powerhouse Museum Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:03:07 +0000 #comment-791771 [...] Day for 2012 I’d like to highlight the amazing short but inspiring aviation career of Maude (Lores) Bonney (1897-1994), one of Australia’s pioneers. Lores’ passion for flying began after a flight in [...] [...] Day for 2012 I'd like to highlight the amazing short but inspiring aviation career of Maude (Lores) Bonney (1897-1994), one of Australia's pioneers. Lores’ passion for flying began after a flight in [...]

]]> By: Allan Fry http://www.historynet.com/lores-bonney-australian-female-pilot.htm#comment-289972 Allan Fry Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:00:06 +0000 #comment-289972 I remeber you ,do you remeber we had to sleep in the stock yards at Longreach no accom! Race Number 6 Piper Aztec . Wish we could do it again a lot of Pilots in that race have gone to the Big airstrip in the sky,They sent me a letter asking me to register for the next one in 2088 cant wait see you there. I remeber you ,do you remeber we had to sleep in the stock yards at Longreach no accom! Race Number 6 Piper Aztec . Wish we could do it again a lot of Pilots in that race have gone to the Big airstrip in the sky,They sent me a letter asking me to register for the next one in 2088 cant wait see you there.

]]> By: Elizabeth Graham http://www.historynet.com/lores-bonney-australian-female-pilot.htm#comment-187567 Elizabeth Graham Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:24:31 +0000 #comment-187567 On April 20th 1988 myself and two other women pilots Linda Thompson and Janice flew in the Bert hinkler Bicentennial Air race and were waved off by Lores Bonney as the only all women crew in the air race and out of 140 aircraft came 33rd .The race spread over 9 days and in Longreach we took off the morning the Queen was landing to open the Longreach hall of fame.We flew from archerfield airport and were supposed to fly over Expo 88 on the opening day but it clouded in. We went as far north as Normanton then across to Cairns and down to Bundaberg for the Bert Hinkler celebrations at his house. Since I was 3 years of age I have been 'plane crazy' and had my first flight in a tigermoth crop dusting plane on my fathers property. I became a flight attendant at the age of 21 with TAA , in 1970, married then was told that I would never have children obtaine my pilots licence in 1983. ihave bee in a few air races since then and enjoyed them thoroughly. I flew with Qantas as cabin crew till oct 1st 2006 and have now retired but am still plane mad! Elizabeth Graham, Clayfield, Queensland. On April 20th 1988 myself and two other women pilots Linda Thompson and Janice flew in the Bert hinkler Bicentennial Air race and were waved off by Lores Bonney as the only all women crew in the air race and out of 140 aircraft came 33rd .The race spread over 9 days and in Longreach we took off the morning the Queen was landing to open the Longreach hall of fame.We flew from archerfield airport and were supposed to fly over Expo 88 on the opening day but it clouded in. We went as far north as Normanton
then across to Cairns and down to Bundaberg for the Bert Hinkler celebrations at his house. Since I was 3 years of age I have been
'plane crazy' and had my first flight in a tigermoth crop dusting plane on my fathers property. I became a flight attendant at the age of 21 with TAA , in 1970, married then was told that I would never have children obtaine my pilots licence in 1983. ihave bee in a few air races since then and enjoyed them thoroughly. I flew with Qantas as cabin crew till oct 1st 2006 and have now retired but am still plane mad! Elizabeth Graham, Clayfield, Queensland.

]]> By: Edward F Dickinson http://www.historynet.com/lores-bonney-australian-female-pilot.htm#comment-18386 Edward F Dickinson Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:21:37 +0000 #comment-18386 As a girl, my mother Ida Florence Meier lived in 52 Dover Street, Newmarket (Flemington) and Maudie Bonney lived in the same street. My mother was born on 6 December 1893, so she and Maudie were much the same age and they played together. Maudie Bonney took my mother to meet her father and he said to Maudie I'm told, "What is your friends name?" and Maudie said, "Her name is Ida." and Maudie's dad said "Then I shall call you Ida Spider." For all their lives and my mother died 13th February 1983, the ladies remained friends. As a boy I called Maudie "Auntie Maudie", and she always called my mother "Spider". I still have a copy of Terry Gwynn-Jones book "Pioneer Airwoman" which Auntie Maudie gave my mother on my mothers birthday in 1979. Maudie has written on the page with the Jonathathon Livingston Seagull Quote, the following inscription: 'To Dear "Spider" My first Australian friend. With Great affection. Maude (Lores) Bonney. 7 /12 / 1979" I have read many articles about her but there is never refernce to the time she lived in Flemington (Newmarket) in Victoria. She visited my family when ever she came to Melbourne and my mother and I visited her whenever we were in Queensland. I am now 71 years of age. As a girl, my mother Ida Florence Meier lived in 52 Dover Street, Newmarket (Flemington) and Maudie Bonney lived in the same street. My mother was born on 6 December 1893, so she and Maudie were much the same age and they played together. Maudie Bonney took my mother to meet her father and he said to Maudie I'm told, "What is your friends name?" and Maudie said, "Her name is Ida." and Maudie's dad said "Then I shall call you Ida Spider." For all their lives and my mother died 13th February 1983, the ladies remained friends. As a boy I called Maudie "Auntie Maudie", and she always called my mother "Spider". I still have a copy of Terry Gwynn-Jones book "Pioneer Airwoman" which Auntie Maudie gave my mother on my mothers birthday in 1979. Maudie has written on the page with the Jonathathon Livingston Seagull Quote, the following inscription:
'To Dear "Spider"
My first Australian friend.
With Great affection.
Maude (Lores) Bonney.
7 /12 / 1979"
I have read many articles about her but there is never refernce to the time she lived in Flemington (Newmarket) in Victoria.

She visited my family when ever she came to Melbourne and my mother and I visited her whenever we were in Queensland.

I am now 71 years of age.

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