Clodagh Finn: The ‘prowling pilot’ who became Ireland's first female flight instructor
Dr Daphne Pochin Mould regularly took her hands off the plane's controls to lean out the window and take aerial shots of the landscape below. Picture: Richard Mills
When I was in my early 20s, I wanted to grow up to be like Dr Daphne Pochin Mould. She was, among other things, a geologist, a photographer, a writer, a “prowling pilot” and Ireland’s first female flight instructor who, it was said, regularly took her hands off the controls to lean out the window and take aerial shots of the landscape below.
For a long time, I thought that story apocryphal but to my great delight I see it verified in a spirit-enriching piece by the late Matt Murphy in , a Sherkin Island Marine Station publication.
