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U. S. Flying News – Page 5 SEPTEMBER 12, 1955 2nd Annual AAA Fly-In Sept, 17th & 18th Ottumwa, Iowa The year's big antique airplane event DON'T MISS IT! Cash and Merchandise prizes to old aircraft in attendance SEPT. 17 AAA business meeting, photography session (so you can get plenty of pictures to add to your collection), interesting movies, buffet supper, and hangar flying. SEPT. 18 Display of new aircraft, flying by Naval Reserve Sqdn. CAP search and rescue flight demonstration, flight of antiques.4 Plan Now To Fly In Appear in Flying Movies [[image]] A 1917 Jenny owned by Jack Hardwick, Hardwick Aircraft co., Rosemeade, Calif., restored and flying. This Jenny has appeared in a number of movie and television shorts. It has a steel tube fuselarge and is powered by a 220 Continental with McCauley steel prop. Hardwick reports the ship flies very nice, about like a Stearman. It cruises at 95 mph., has steerable tail wheel, but no brakes. Hardwick regularly rents and flies old aircraft for the movies. [[image]] An antique as fighter planes go is this P40N, also owned by Jack Hardwick, which he uses for personal transportation on long trips. The early WW II fighter is powered by 1710-81 Allison engine and is painted red with the authentic Flying Tiger insignia. IMPORTANT! Here's Where To Send News And Ads Send all news and photos regarding antique aircraft, plus all correspondence regarding the Antique Aircraft Association (plus memberships), to: ROBERT L. TAYLOR, President Antique Airplane Association Box 52, Ottumwa, Iowa Send all classifed and display ads, plus all correspondence relating to them, to BOX AAA U. S. FLYING NEWS 105 W. Adams Street Chicago 3, Illinois (All rates are the same as those in U. S. Flying News). INTERESTED IN OLD AIRCRAFT? Join Antique Aircraft Association! GET HELP in your own private historical work, in re-building that old airplane, or in expanding your library or photo collection! GET YEARLY LIST of all members of the Antique Aircraft Association, including a listing of each member's specific interest. You can contact each other at will, to swap information and help! GET ADVICE from us about any problem you may have regarding antiques. We'll help you in any way we can. ATTEND FLY-IN! Your membership will make possible a really big annual Fly-In, and will help in the overall expenses of administrating the Association CLIP OUT BLANK AND SEND IN NOW! Get your membership card in the Antique Aircraft Association. Get personal help with your hobby, and help save our aviation history from oblivion! Remember, this is a non-profit organization. – PLEASE USE PENCIL OR BALL-POINT PEN – [[check box]] Enclosed is $5 to cover one year membership in the Antique Aircraft Association, plus a year's subscription to the Antique Airplane News (published within the U. S. Flying News.) [[check box]] Enclosed is $2 to cover one year membership in the Antique Airplane Association. (I am already a subscriber to U. S. Flying News). Name (Please Print) Address City and State Make checks payable to Antique Airplane Association and mail to Box 52, Ottumwa, Iowa. MY SPECIAL INTEREST IN ANTIQUE AIRCRAFT INCLUDES: [[check box]] Planes [[check box]] Photos [[check box]] Books [[check box]] Models [[check box]] (Others) Aircraft owned Occupation SEND US NEWS! Pick up your pencil or ball point, or climb behind the controls of your old typewriter and give us all the dope on flying activities in your area. Just a letter telling us what's doing is all we ask. All photos will be returned, if specified. Send all material to: U. S. Flying News, 105 W. Adams, Chicago 3, Ill. FIRST WOMAN PILOT ... (Continued from Page 1) Bug" after four days of roaring up and down the field, "cutting grass." A governor on the 35 hp engine kept the ship from gaining enough power to takeoff. Miss Scott recalls the final briefing from Mr. Curtiss before her solo flight. "Not very encouraging," she recalls. He went over all the controls, telling her to be sure to remember this and that, and ended with, "Well, that's it, God bless you and keep you ... I can't." A few minutes later, on Sept. 6, 1910, Miss Scott was airborne on her solo flight – a quarter of a mile hop. A few days later she mastered 360 degree turns and was on her own as the first woman pilot in the U. S. Long-distance Flight She also became the first woman to make a long-distance flight. One day in 1911, after a tiff with a flying associate, she took off from Mineola, L. I. airport and made a 60 mile non-stop flight. "I was missing for over an hour and had everyone scared to death," she reminisced. From 1911 to 1916 Miss Scott barnstormed across the country with a group of early birdmen that included Lincoln Beachey, Phil Parmalee, Tom Gunn, and Horace Karney. "Beachey and I had quite a popular act." "The day before the show in each new location, an announcement was made to the papers that Beachey had been secretly teaching a woman to fly. The reports were that she could fly wings around Blanche Stuart Scott and would prove it at the show the following day." The "darkhorse" woman pilot was actually Beachey in a billowy skirt and flowing blonde wig and when he landed to receive the applause of the crowd Miss Scott would pretend to be extremely aggravated. She would very ungraciously refuse to congratulate this "other woman" on her superior flying skill. Finally and obviously with great reluctance on her part she and Beachey would be brought together some distance from the crowd. Then as they shook hands Miss Scott would quickly pull off Beachey's wig. Most of the crowds were completely fooled, and as soon as the recognized Beachey they would roar their approval. Miss Scott's job with the museum reminds her a little of her barnstorming days – lots of traveling, and living out of a suitcase. But it's fun she says, "Just wait ill those rocket pilots and space travelers of the future get a look at our latest jets. They'll probably marvel at their progress then just as I do now when I think back to the days of the old Curtiss with the wind whistling, the engine whining, and nothing but open air up front. Anyone wishing to contact Miss Scott in regard to things of historical value can reach her through the Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Dayton, Ohio. [[image]] Blanche Stuart Scott, the country's first woman pilot as she looked to air show crowds curing her barnstorming days. [[image]] Miss Scott today – on the trail of aviation history for the Air Force Museum. Sweet Will'yum Doesn't Like Flying Raises Big Stink At 7000 Feet Six passengers and pilot, looking very uncomfortable indeed, set a record for getting out of a twin Beechcraft at Chicago's Meigs Field recently. From a distance nothing appeared wrong with the plane and some observers wondered why the speedy exist. But persons close to the ship got wind of the situation in a hurry. It was sweet Will'yum, a three-month old skunk who was also a passenger aboard the plane. The party had spent the weekend at a Wisconsin resort and the little skunk was a gift to one of the women from a friend of the resort owner. He assured her that the little animal had been surgically converted into a "non-stinker." However, on the return flight to Chicago the party unhappily discovered that Sweet Will-yum was still very much a little stinker. It was at 7,000 feet over southern Wisconsin and "Will'yum" began to get excited. The husband of Will'yum's new owner noted his restlessness, but his wife said, "Don't worry dear, remember what the man told us – a skunk has to stomp four times and make a U-turn FIRST!" No one knows how many times Sweet Will'yum stomped, or whether or not he made his U-turn, but all of a sudden – "WHEW!" – and there they were, six passengers and pilot with all that fresh air outside, but not a bit to breathe. The party gasped its way into Chicago and later after a half-hour of deep breathing they were none the worse for wear. As for Sweet Will'yum, it is reported he underwent a conversion job the following day and is now very definitely a "non-stinker." WANTED: GOOD USED PLANES Immediate cash waiting for clean used airplanes – any category. Why waste time and money selling your plane yourself when you can close the deal and get immediate payment ... all in one day. We are not brokers!!!, and you don't deal with any middleman. We buy your plane from you. 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