Collection 03: Nancy Bird Walton interviews, mainly for radio, discussing her own life, aviation, air services and aviators

MLOH 6

sub-fonds

1978-1983

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Musical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

395176

Digitised

28 audiocassettes (13 hr., 21 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE, was born in 1915 and began flying lessons in 1933, obtaining a commercial flying licence in 1934 aged 19. She participated in various air races during the 1930s and was employed by the Royal Far West Children's Health Scheme to operate her aircraft as a Aerial Ambulance and Baby Clinic Service in western NSW. Nancy Bird Walton was Commandant of the Women's Air Training Corps from 1940-1945 and is the Founder, First President and Patron of the Women Pilots Association. Nancy Bird Walton has published two autobiographical works, 'Born to Fly', 1961, and 'My God! It's a Woman', 1990.

Item 1: ‘Fear of Flying’ : radio program presented by Caroline Jones
Item 2: Radio program featuring Nancy Bird Walton
Item 3: Nancy Bird Walton interview by Mike Walsh
Item 4: Speech by Nancy Bird Walton about female aviator, Amy Johnson
Item 5: ‘Sentimental Journey’ : radio program about Amy Johnson on the Golden Jubilee of her solo flight from England to Australia
Item 6: Nancy Bird Walton interview by Michael Carlton, 26 May 1980
Item 7: Nancy Bird Walton interview by Michael Carlton, 26 May 1980
Item 8: Nancy Bird Walton interviewed about Amy Johnson
Item 9: Dick Smith interview by Michael Parkinson
Item 10: Nancy Bird Walton talks about the history of aviation
Item 11: Nancy Bird Walton interview by Buzz Kennedy about Bert Hinkler
Item 12: Nancy Bird Walton interview by Buzz Kennedy ; Nancy Bird Walton interview about the air ambulance service
Item 13: Roy Betiens discusses the Hinkler commemoration weekend in Bundaberg, Qld
Item 14: Edward Wixted and Nancy Bird Walton discuss Australian aviation history
Item 15: Nancy Bird Walton interview by Edward Wixted
Item 16: Nancy Bird Walton interview by Caroline Mary Newman Jones
Item 17: Nancy Bird Walton interview by Caroline Mary Newman Jones, 1978
Item 18: Radio documentary about the history of Australian aviation from 1936 to the 1970's
Item 19: Nancy Bird Walton talks about the history of Australian aviation
Item 20: Speech by Nancy Bird Walton about the history of International and Australian aviation and her own life and experiences
Item 21: Nancy Bird Walton oral history interview
Item 22: Unidentified man oral history interview by Nancy Bird Walton about his aviation experience and Australian aviation history
Item 23: Arthur Yates' story of the founding of the East-West Airline in 1947
Item 24: Nancy Bird Walton discusses the 1913 Hubert Wilkins expedition to the Arctic.
Item 25: Nancy Bird Walton interview

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

Diaries, log books, personal papers, scrapbooks, newscuttings, photograph albums and certificates of Nancy Bird Walton are located at MLMSS 811 and MLMSS 2231. Further papers are located at MLMSS 2231 ADD-ON 462, MLMSS 2231 ADD-ON 1624 and MLMSS 6490. See card catalogues for further papers and pictorial material.