Hilda Lyons was educated at Cambridge. She joined the RAW as a Technical Assistant working alongside such people as Roxbee Cox and Arthur Pugsley. She was interested in stress analysis and was highly regarded by her colleagues. In 1929 she won the prestigious R38 Memorial Prize for her paper “The Strength of Traverse Frame Rigid Airships” which was a rare honour for a woman. She left Cardington in 1930 and had a highly successful career in aeronautical design.
On June 27th 2019 a blue plaque for Hilda Lyon was unveiled at her birthplace at Market Weighton Town Hall, East Yorks.
