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the throttle on her 35 hp pusher aircraft, but on that day "something" had happened to the throttle block, and Ms. Scott rose about forty feet into the air.
 
Curtiss was not happy, but he did recognize Ms. Scott's ability, and she soon became a member of the Curtiss Exhibition Team, making her public debut at a Chicago air meet October 1-9, 1910.
 
That fall she married the man who had done advance publicity for her auto trip and temporarily retired from flying.

But she could not stay away from aviation long, and in July 1911, she was back at it, flying with the famous balloon and airplane pilot, Thomas Scott Baldwin, at Mineola, New York. Flying in meets all over the country, billed as "The Tomboy of the Air," she became more and more daring. She flew inverted twenty feet off the ground, sailed under bridges, and performed her famous "Death Dive" in which she would plummet straight down from 4000 feet, sometimes not leveling out until she was only 200 feet from the ground.
 
Blanche joined the Ward Exhibition Team of Chicago and flew a Baldwin Red Devil airplane. On May 31, 1913, as she was doing low-altitude stunts at a meet in Madison, Wisconsin, a wing cable