Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA): Women pilots, forming a section of the Air Transport Auxiliary service, ferried new Royal Air Force aircraft from factory to aerodrome. Photograph shows Pauline Gower, Commandant of the ATA Women's Section, waving.
Pauline Gower, Commandant of the Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Section, waving from the cockpit of a de Havilland Tiger Moth at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, prior to a delivery flight, 10 January 1940.