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Winifred Joyce Drinkwater (11 April 1913 – 6 October 1996) was a Scottish airline pilot and engineer. She was the world's first woman commercial airline pilot.

Biography
Drinkwater was born on 11 April 1913 at Waterfoot, Scotland, the youngest of the three children of Emma Banner and Albert Drinkwater, an engineer.

Drinkwater joined the Scottish Flying Club near Renfrew on 2 June 1930. She trained at the club and gained her private pilot's license later that year becoming Scotland's youngest pilot.

0n 8 May 1932, aged 19, she gained her "B" (Commercial) license at Cinque Ports Flying Club at Lympne in Kent, making her the youngest professional pilot in the United Kingdom and the world's first female commercial pilot. Regulations at the time required pilots to be 19 years of age, Drinkwater commented to the press, "I decided to qualify for a professional license. I could not do that until I became 19 because of the regulations, and immediately after my birthday in April I started. I have been at Lymphe for three weeks, and it has been a gruelling time." A test of night flying was required as part of the qualification and despite the floodlights failing at Lymphe aerodrome on the night of her test flight, she landed successfully with the assistance of flares. Drinkwater also gained her instructor's certificate later in 1932, and her ground engineer license in 1933.

In September 1932 Drinkwater was awarded the Scottish Flying Club trophy for landing. On 11 October 1932 at Renfrew Aerodrome, she won one of the Club's cups for air racing, winning by just 2 seconds over a course of 15 miles.

In 1933 Drinkwater was employed by Midland and Scottish Air Ferries owner John Sword to fly the Glasgow to Campbeltown route, and later Glasgow to London.

She met Francis Short, the director of Short Brothers aeroplane manufacturer, at Renfrew Aerodrome. When they met she was dismantling an engine and covered in grease. They married on 19 July 1934 and had two children. Drinkwater rarely flew after her marriage. The couple later moved to Padstow in Cornwall. After Short's death in 1954, Drinkwater married William Orchard, a fisherman, returning to live in Scotland after his death in 1983. She later moved to New Zealand to live with her daughter.