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early death.  He did not doubt their courage, he said, but feared that a woman's "innate" lack of self-confidence would cause her to panic in an emergency situation and lose control.  This premise was refuted time and time again, however, as women pilots coolly recovered from perilous situations in the air and landed safely.
   Sometimes in those early days theories and articles supporting the idea of women as pilots did almost more harm than good.  In 1911 Prof. Rudolph Hensingmuller of Vienna published a list of reasons why women were better pilots than men were.  Some of his reasons were so ludicrous that they were immediately held up to ridicule:
    because she has retained the primitive faculty of seeing with full retina; enforced modesty and flirting have caused this;
    because she has scattered attention instead of concentration; this is invaluable to an aviator who must notice many things at once;
    because she has the faculty of intuition - that quality of the mind which can take in a number of causes simultaneously and induce a

[[handwritten]] 1)1911 newspaper, found in Mathilde Moisant biog. file, NASM Lib.  [[/handwritten]]