{"id":305842,"date":"2025-10-22T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1422767"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:19:12","slug":"groundbreaking-pilots-story-goes-from-cockpit-to-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=305842","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking pilot\u2019s story goes from cockpit to stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI2NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iMzYyIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1422768 wp-post-1422767\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" data-public-id=\"Australian Aviation\/Ensemble_Theatre___Standing_ovation_for_FLY_GIRL_lvxxf1.gif\" data-format=\"gif\" data-transformations=\"f_auto\" data-version=\"1761110264\" data-responsive=\"1\" data-size=\"1200 678\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/>Deborah Lawrie, who paved the way for female commercial pilots in Australia with her\u00a0landmark High Court win over Ansett\u00a0in 1979-80 and still flies for Virgin, recently attended a preview show of the play FLY GIRL at Sydney\u2019s Ensemble Theatre ahead of its opening on 22 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah Lawrie, who paved the way for female commercial pilots in Australia with her\u00a0landmark High Court win over Ansett\u00a0in 1979-80 and still flies for Virgin, recently attended a preview show of the play FLY GIRL at Sydney\u2019s Ensemble Theatre ahead of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,312,471,8221],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-305842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-aviation","category-news","category-people","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305843,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305842\/revisions\/305843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}