Evening star. [volume], July 18, 1915, Page 7, Image 33

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

Image provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, DC

                
J
ReVIX- ,- ^^Rk
E^^^hlfkikdk HI
I OLTE may be
at this moment ft \
dropping bombs on // \
England. She is y \
the only woman 'MfmUp - ,
Zeppelin pilot in f V
the German
/ 4BMBBW^H|^^Mj
S^Hl'SAXXE V
I b E R - IV.
Jmi
l(?S
the final 1
for her pilot's I
France I
she \
her
? \
X/ rWKfai
/ _^# S^V *v v ~
1 y >%l |i| X 'tytft
'-iS^? .
1 '' IflVT
MISS MOISANT ura the next American no.
man after her friend Miss Qiiimby to be
granted a pilot's license. She ascribes her gooil 1
t fortune in her flights to her lucky number 13,
i which is always attached to her machine. She
was taught to fly by her famous brother. Once
she escaped from an angry sheriff by aeroplane.
fust as Brave as Me]
\ Vk/
T3LAXCI1K STUART SCOTT'S excellent driving was first notice
^ when, as a motorist, she took a transcontinental trip in one of th
Glidden tours. She learned aviation at the Curtiss school, and made
record in a remarkable cross-country flight to Garden City, Long Islam
i, i in i
J
ttlfl H|
Copyright, li. V. Diuk.
pERNETTA ADAMS MILLER is a young
" American pilot of the Moisant school, ana
flies a Bleriot type monoplane. There are now
about fifty women fliers, and their accident rate
has been no higher than that of men aviators.
Vf ATII.DE MOISANT was rescued from this burning
^ 1 machine while flying at Wichita, Texas. This photograph,
the only one made of the accident, was taken by an
amateur.
fl
ie
? /- rpHISu Mrs. Maw
' ^X J rjjf j" '"
/; . machine that Mrs.
/ ^ttj?, * Hewlett has used a
/e^^. B great deal to demonstrate
her
PELTIER
was
woman
make an as
Dela^^^^HISRIr
"< >
/ fcy
j^V /
I wine of his
/
1 1
/\ *
IJARHIKT Ql'IMBY, journalist, uiitneuedan
* * aeroplane race for the first time in 1910.
-1 Two months later she was an efficient pilot. Miss
Quimby was the first American woman to receive
a pilot's license, the first to steer a monoplane.
and the first to cross the English Channel.
She met death in 1912 at Boston.