During Women’s History Month, Candy Adkins was invited to the rehearsals of Spitfire Girls stage play at the MAST theatre, Southampton. It was a busy few days for Candy, with three talks in …| solentaviatrix
A new stage play written by Katherine Senior will have its premier in Southampton. Katherine told Solent Aviatrix, “we are opening at MAST Mayflower Studios on 20th March 2025 and then touring all around the UK until the end of May. We have the Royal British Legion as our lead partner and have some Arts […]| solentaviatrix
A celebration of the achievements of Katherine Margaret Gill are long overdue. She stamped her mark on British history in 1935 when she became the first deaf pilot in Britain. Not only the first deaf female to reach for the skies and gain a pilot’s licence, but the first of either sex. To do this […]| solentaviatrix
On 8 July 1940 Joy Muntz Davison became the first female Air Transport Auxiliary pilot to die in service. She was a long time friend of Amy Johnson. Amy is sometimes mistakenly believed to have been the first woman pilot to die in the Second World War. Sadly, that fate fell to Joy. It is […]| solentaviatrix
During the last two years of global pandemic many authors settled down to write the book they had always intended to write. A brand new biography of British aviatrix Pauline Gower is the outcome of months of ‘lockdown.’ With the backing of Pauline’s son Michael and Dorothy Spicer’s daughter, the author Alison Hill, has written […]| solentaviatrix