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shoulder. If the plane had not fallen into a swamp, her injuries might have been worse.
Her injury kept her grounded almost a year, but in 1914 she went back to stunt flying and also made test flights for Curtiss and for Glenn Martin.
But by 1916 she began to be bothered by the public's morbid interest in crashes and their seeming disappointment at air meets where no one was killed or injured. She was also frustrated that there seemed to be no place in aviation for women engineers or mechanics.
So at age 27, Blanche Scott retired.
Although Bessica Raiche's solo flight did not occur until September 16, 1910, two weeks after Blanche Scott's, Ms. Raiche's flight was considered definitely "intentional", and on October 13, 1910, the Aeronautical Society honored