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Post by seekingmargaretclarke on Nov 1, 2016 22:59:49 GMT 12
Gentlemen, Margaret is a very agile and with-it 89yo who turns 90yo on 24th November 2016. The interview was highly successful and she edited the draft I had posted her and I have now an edited and approved article with a current photograph of her. The article will be published in the last "Airnews" (for Aust Women Pilots' Assoc magazine) for 2016 - well, at least the first 3 that are still alive (that won the Evelyn Follett Trophy)and then the magazine blew out and the last 3 get printed in March 2017. If you would like a copy of the article about Margaret I am happy to email it to you. She resides in Canberra near her children and grandchildren. She lived in New Zealand for 3 years and held a CPL in New Zealand but only did joyflights and charters, nil agricultural flying. She returned to Australia and flew charter work before falling in love and marrying and having a family. I have mentioned this Forum in the Credits for the article about Margaret as you provided invaluable links and information. Thank you everyone again for your help. Cheers, Kate H.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 2, 2016 9:03:18 GMT 12
Well done Kate!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2016 13:08:18 GMT 12
What a fantastic result! Bravo Kate!
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Post by scrooge on Nov 2, 2016 18:54:37 GMT 12
Indeed, well done and thanks for the update. Once it's published could you post the article (or a link to it) here?
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Post by seekingmargaretclarke on Nov 11, 2016 15:41:48 GMT 12
Gentlemen - thank you and no probs - if I can't find a link to the magazine online I will just email you my document
Cheers and thanks again, Kate H
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 1, 2017 12:09:47 GMT 12
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Post by suthg on Feb 1, 2017 13:34:23 GMT 12
Nice bibliography there and respect for WONZ and DH!!
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Post by juanita on May 12, 2017 8:53:50 GMT 12
Red Baron you made some funny comments earlier in this string of posts about her giving up after a few scares!
I'm sure you were joking...Most men pilots don’t last the distance for the same reason: A few engine failures and forced landings and they go back to knitting.
I can only assume the Jacki Cochran, Amelia Earhart, Lores Bonney, Margaret Gilruth, Jean Batton etc , didn’t quit flying because they didn’t know how to knit.
:-) Just a gentle nudge said with a smile.
Juanita
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Post by craig on May 12, 2017 10:17:35 GMT 12
yet in you own replies on this thread you on a number of times refer to the readers/viewers as "Gentlemen" seemingly excluding the "Gentle Women" who may have been watching this thread.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 1, 2022 0:08:33 GMT 12
2 ladies topdressed in the 1950's Muriel Dutton & Phyllis Towers.Margaret Ellis did a little bit in the mid 1960's A 19-year-old Christchurch girl, Miss Margaret Ellis, yesterday was notified that she had gained her commercial pilot’s licence. Miss Ellis intends to be a topdressing pilot. She had a flight test with a North Island company, with which she will soon start work. Two years and a half ago Miss Ellis began flying training with the Canterbury Aero Club, and gained her private pilot’s licence. To obtain her commercial licence she changed for instruction to the Christchurch Central Flying School. To obtain a commercial licence a pilot must complete a minimum of 200 flying hours. Miss Ellis did her theoretical examinations at Commercial Aviation School in Wanganui. Miss Ellis said yesterday she had always been “dead keen to fly. My rooms are plastered with photographs of all types of aircraft,” she said. Topdressing appealed to her. It was essential to primary production and so would enable her, she said, to do her bit for her adopted country (she came from England 13 years ago). “Also I just love low flying, and this is one way of doing it legally,” she said. Miss Ellis is believed to be the first girl in Christchurch to obtain a commercial pilot's licence. She is a member of the New Zealand Airwomen’s Association, and this year holds the association’s aerobatic trophy. As for hobbles, Miss Ellis says she has no time for one. “Flying occupies all my time, although lately I’ve taken up judo,” she said. PRESS, 14 JULY 1966 |
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Post by mattyd on Jul 10, 2024 10:33:39 GMT 12
I am writing a short article about this Lady. Miss Clarke won the Evelyn Follett Trophy in 1954 as she was Australia's first female Ag pilot. By 1957 a newspaper records that she moved to continue flying as an Ag pilot in New Zealand. Two additional articles indicate that she married to become Mrs WooDhouse or WooLhouse. And there the trail has gone cold. I know she was born in Queensland and she was born approximately 1925 (maybe). No facts or details about what she did in New Zealand, where based, who worked for, who married, where she died (or is she still alive) are available to me at this time. If anyone has any ideas that can assist me to locate Margaret or information about her flying Life, I would be very appreciative. |
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Post by mattyd on Jul 10, 2024 10:36:04 GMT 12
I'm a personal friend of Margaret Woolhouse. She told me briefly about her flying career. She still lives and is in her late
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