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Maude Rose "Lores" Bonney, AM, MBE (20 November – 24 February ) was a South African-born Australian aviator.
Maude Rose 'Lores' Bonney (–), aviator, was born on 20 November in Pretoria, South African Republic, only child of German-born Norbert Albert....
Maude Rose (Rubens) Bonney AM MBE (1897 - 1994)
Maude Rose(Lores)BonneyAM MBE formerly Rubens
Born in Pretoria, South Africa
Daughter of Norbert Albert Rubens and Rosalia Carolina (Haible) Rubens
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Barrington Bonney— married 7 May 1917 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
[children unknown]
Died at age 96in Mermaid Beach, Queensland, Australia
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Lores Bonney was one of Australia's great pioneers of aviation, with several "firsts" to her name :
- clocked the longest one-day flight by an airwoman (1600 km / 994.2 miles)
- first woman who circumnavigated Australia by air (12,800 km / 7953.55 miles)
- first woman who flew solo from Australia to the UK (20,000 km / 12427.4 miles)
- made the first flight from Australia to South Afri