ANÉSIA PINHEIRO MACHADO 1902-1999

Anésia Pinheiro Machado in front of her "CAUDRON" G-3 of 120HP. Her plane was affectionately baptized as the "Bandeirante", named for the dean of aviation. In this airplane she made her first solo in Brazil, on March 17, 1922, just before reaching 18 years of age.      In April, 1922, she received Brevet No. 77 from the Federação Aeronáutica internacional (FAI) pelo Aeroclube do Brasil. Thereza de Marzo had received Brevet No. 76, just before Anésia. Photo from the Anésia Pinheiro Machado website Courtesy of Alex Pinheiro Machado Rodrigues

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search the net for "Anésia Pinheiro Machado" using Google, you will find about 222 links. One of them is truly outstanding. It is dedicated solely to her life and career and is at once both comprehensive and fascinating. It offers sections devoted to Fotos, Curriculum, and Histórico. There are some 53 unique photos, each easily enlarged. It is written in Portuguese, but a machine translation is available directly from the entry. I can heartily recommend this site to you without hesitation. It is without a doubt the definitive site available.   Anésia Pinheiro Machado by Alex Pinheiro Machado Rodrigues      If you read Portuguese, just click on the title above to access the site. If you need a machine-translation, you can click on the title just below. Anésia Pinheiro Machado        If you still want to learn more about her life and career, you will find plenty of material among the other several hundred available sites.

Após a demonstração acrobatica, em 1940, com Newton Braga e a aviadora Carola Lorenzini. Photo from the Anésia Pinheiro Machado website Courtesy of Alex Pinheiro Machado Rodrigues

 

Anésia Pinheiro Machado died in 1999   Editor's Note: If you have any information on this Early Flier, please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper   Back