Left to right: Anesia Pinheiro Machado (1904-1999) and Donald Dionne
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Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1948
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-5753
Brazilian aviation expert and pilot Anesia Pinheiro Machado (1904-1999) is shown with Pan American Airways senior instructor Donald Dionne. Machado was the first person to obtain a U.S. commercial pilot's license with additional ratings as instructor and for flying on instruments only; she was also an instructor for the Brazilian Air Force and commercial airlines. The Pan American Airways press release accompanying this photograph described how the appearance of the "petite newcomer" with "plenty of aviation 'know how'" had elicited a sense of wonder among the junior Clipper pilots at the flight school. She had made her first solo flight in 1922, at the age of 18 and was the first Brazilian woman to make a cross-country flight.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-5753
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-5753]