The Wild GeesAviator Mary Bailey was born the Hon Mary Westenra #OTD in 1890 in Rossmore Castle, Co Monaghan. She held many firsts and records, and '"personally guided a plane from England to the nether tip of South Africa and back". She was probably the first woman to take aerial photos of archaeological sites in Egypt. She sat on Women's Engineering Society council and was made a DBE in 1930.
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📷 in 1911, public domain on Wikimedia Commons
