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by an American woman. Was this flight intentional or accidental? Did Blanche Scott become impatient with Curtiss' distrust of women as pilots & decide to show him what she could do? He had indeed blocked the throttle on her 35hp pusher aircraft, but on that day "something" had happened to the throttle block, & and Ms. Scott rose about forty feet in the air. 

Curtiss was not happy, but he did recognize Ms. Scott's ability & she soon became a member of the Curtiss Exhibition Team, making her public debut at a Chicago air meet October 19, 1910. That fall she married the man who had done advance publicity for her auto trip & she temporarily retired from flying due to family pressures. 

But she couldn't stay away from aviation long, & in July 1911 she was