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In 1937 she joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) Farnborough where she remained for the whole of a very eminent career.

Director of her family’s Wolf Safety Lamp Company, which made safety lamps for mining and quarrying

Pioneering engineer-pilot

British aviator and aeronautical engineer.

The first woman to fly in experimental bomber aircraft in the UK

Eily Keary, Naval Architect, was the first woman to have her paper read to the Institution of Naval Architects.

British motorist, engineer and metallurgist

Burns was an aeronautical engineer and glider pilot, who became the world expert in ‘Clear Air Turbulence’ and its effects on aircraft safety.

Daredevil sportswoman, animal rights activist and feminist in Belle Epoque Paris

After her automobile designer died in 1913, she took over the family business