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BLANCHE STUART SCOTT (Aviatrix)
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Born April 8, 1889 at Rochester, N.Y. She now resides at 253 Alexander St., Rochester, N.Y. 14607. She learned to fly at Hammondsport, N.Y., under the tutelage of Glenn H. Curtiss, on a Curtiss pusher, making her first solo flight on September 6, 1910. One month later she was flying on the Curtiss team and on October 22nd and 23rd, 1910, flew at Fort Wayne, Indiana. 

Miss Scott also flew at the Boston Air Meet from the Squantum Air Field in 1911, at which Harriet Quimby and her passenger, Charles F. Willard, Sr. fell out of the airplane into Boston harbor and were killed. 

Miss Scott was never licensed as a pilot, because she stopped exhibition flying before aviators' licenses were issued and she never applied for an F.A.I. Airpla ne Pilot's Certificate, however, she flew various exhibition dates for several years. She participated in the "outlay Air Meet" at Oakland, California, February 17, 18, 22, 23, 23 & 25, 1912, which the Aero Club of America refused to sanction. She was and still is a member of the Early Birds of Aviation. 

Miss Scott later became a radio announcer at the WSAY and WVET radio stations in 1946-47 & 48 a nd la ter at the WARC Rochester radio station, after which she was announcer at the WLEA ra dio station at Hornell, N.Y.

In 1955 she worked for the U.S. Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. 

Before learning to fly, she drove an "Overland" automobile across the United States, which was quite a feat for a woman at the early period in auromobile history. She was the first lady to use ladies "bloomers" a s flying apparel. In July, 1912, Blanche Stuart Scott assumed the management of the Gorman and Princess thea res at Framingham, Mass., in addition to her flying activities.