Mona Hirst
Engineer who started out as a mathematician.
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Pauline Gower
Set up and commanded the women’s Air Transport Auxiliary in WWII
Kate Maslen
British aeronautical researcher.
Muriel Glauert
British mathematician and aerodynamicist
Jean Taylor
Jean Taylor was generally described in her lifetime as an entomologist but, although that was the source of her expertise, perhaps today she might be considered to have been an applied biologist or bio-engineer.
Hilda M Lyon
In 1922 she became an associate fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 1925 joined the Royal Airship Works in Cardington.
Ethel H Bailey
American mechanical engineer working from about 1917 to some time in the 1950s.
Dr Helen Grimshaw
In 1937 she joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) Farnborough where she remained for the whole of a very eminent career.
Monica Maurice
Director of her family’s Wolf Safety Lamp Company, which made safety lamps for mining and quarrying
Joy Muntz
Pioneering engineer-pilot