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Title: Help me identify this pilot and aircraft
Post by: Nefarious on June 25, 2022, 05:00:42 PM

(https://i.postimg.cc/WzbbQdxN/FB-IMG-1656191341525.jpg)

Any clue on who this might be?

Title: Re: Help me identify this pilot and aircraft
Post by: Brooke on June 25, 2022, 05:33:24 PM

Used an image search.  I think maybe Ruth Law Oliver:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Ruth_Law%2C_the_only_woman_permitted_to_wear_the_government_aviation_uniform_in_France_for_nonmilitary_purposes%2C_with..._-_NARA_-_559380_%28cropped%29.tif/lossy-page1-320px-Ruth_Law%2C_the_only_woman_permitted_to_wear_the_government_aviation_uniform_in_France_for_nonmilitary_purposes%2C_with..._-_NARA_-_559380_%28cropped%29.tif.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Law_Oliver

Title: Re: Help me identify this pilot and aircraft
Post by: 100Coogn on June 25, 2022, 05:42:11 PM

I think you nailed it Brooke.  :aok

Coogan

Title: Re: Help me identify this pilot and aircraft
Post by: Brooke on June 25, 2022, 05:48:48 PM

Also pre marriage known as Ruth Law.

More pics:

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EOUvGLy3YBQ/Th0YDsPrprI/AAAAAAABn5k/jhY-cNldOqY/s1600/tumblr_lkbmy4fyrM1qgvvn1o1_1280.jpg)



https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/ruth-law-first-of-many-extraordinary.html

Title: Re: Help me identify this pilot and aircraft
Post by: Nefarious on June 25, 2022, 06:08:44 PM

Yep. Most certainly her.

Her picture was recently donated to the local history museum. The photography studio was located in the city for a number of decades.