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M. Davis [[preprinted]] MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS [[/preprinted]] 1 - Relative wind - wind passing by ship V - 3 [[business card]] [[image - logo aeroplane in flight]] Curtiss-Wright Flying Service MISS MANILA DAVIS SALES DEPARTMENT BOSTON AIRPORT EAST BOSTON, MASS. PHONE: EAST BOSTON 4070 [[/business card]] [[newspaper clipping]] WOMEN AIR PILOTS Three women in West Virginia have licenses to pilot aeroplanes, two of these sisters, Misses Manila Davis and Maude E. Davis, of Flatwoods, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Davis, and granddaughters of M. H. Davis of Pennsboro. The former was first to receive her license and is listed as the only woman pilot in the state prior to 1931. Both are former University students. The other pilot is Miss Genevieve Pixler, of Huntington. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] SATURDAY, JAN. 25, 1930 W. Va. Girl First Plane Saleswoman SUTTON, W. Va., Jan 25.— Manila Davis of Flatwoods, Braxton county is a pioneer in a new field. She had been engaged as an airplane saleswoman for the Curtis-Wright, Inc., at the Boston, Mass., airport. She is the first girl saleswoman in the industry. She graduated at Sutton High school. She has quite a bit of flying to her credit. In private live she is Mrs. Randolph Russell, wife of a Boston sportsman. Her father is Claude C. Davis of Braxton county. [[/newspaper clipping]] NEW ENGLAND Members Of 99's April 5, 1930 Bacon Mary Blake Bernice Chase Mildred Chassey Irene Davidson Jean Doig Marjorie Davis Manila Fenno Mrs J.K. Goodrich Mary Hoyt Jean Kelley Betsy Kenyon Mrs Theo Manning Helen Mathews Olivia Shankle Joan [[newspaper clipping]] SOLO BATTLE ON The battle for supremacy in soloing women students is now tied all even. In case you haven't any idea of what we are talking about, it is the struggle between Adolph M. Backstrom, student instructor of Curtiss-Wright, and Charlie Emerson, chief pilot for Skyways. Backstrom soloed the first woman at the Boston airport in 1928, and since then turned two more female pilots loose. Charlie Emerson came along fast when Skyways began to cater to the women students, and soon passed Adolph's record, setting up one of his own of four solos and one check-out. Now Backstrom, with his customary nonchalance, turns two women lose in one day, one on her first solo, and the other a check-out, or one who has soloed before, and is turned loose in another type of airplane. The two embryo pilots who were told, in that cheery voice instructors use when putting a student off on his own, to "go ahead," were Miss Edith Forbes, of Boston and France, and Miss Manila Davis, of the Curtiss sales force, and who also is hostess at the Curtiss hangar. Miss Davis was taught to fly by Skyways, but had all her instruction in a Moth, so Backstrom, in order to give her two hours of aerial acrobatics, checked her out in a Fledgling. In addition to these two, Backstrom soloed Mrs. Dorothy Warrick, of Flint, Mich., early in '28, the first female to fly all by herself at the airport here, and Miss Mae Slayton, of Boston. Emerson, to list his accomplishments, turned out Miss Olivia "Keet" Mathews, on skis, the first one of her kind; Miss Eleonore Spear of Wellesley College and daughter of State Senator Spear of Portland; Miss Davis, Miss Wilcox of Radcliffe College, and Miss Betsy Kelley, who had soloed previously at her home in Pennsylvania and whom Charlie rode around with long enough so that she got the "feel" of the D. H. Moth. Now that the boys are even the race is on again. In addition to the two girls, Backstrom made his day complete by sending Student Stanley Boynton off on his first ride all by himself. Boynton made several landings and then grinned when the boys congratulated him. TIMKEN IN TRI-MOTOR [[/newspaper clipping]]
