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Los Angeles Examiner
Part Two
LOS ANGELES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1931
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Copyright, 1931, by Los Angeles Examiner


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'First American Aviatrix' Claim Challenged Here
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Blanche Stuart Scott, Writer, Says Her Record Predates Santa Ana Woman's
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Blanche Stuart Scott doesn't want to start a controversy about who was America's first woman aviator -

[[image caption:]] BLANCHE SCOTT As she appeared in 1912 garb ready for takeoff in early-day plane.

But, just the same, she earnestly believes she was about three weeks ahead of Dr. Beccisa Raiche of Santa Ana, recently heralded as the first woman to make an airplane flight in the United States.

"It's all ancient history now and the modern girls are doing so many wonder-things we never dreamed of," she explained. "But after thinking for 20 years that you were first, it is disheartening to be told you were not."

Miss Scott, Hollywood scenario writer, has lots of clippings and photos, dated 1910, 1911 and 1912, describing her as "first aviatrix," picturing weird "crates" and "aeroplanes," odd costumes and picture hats.

But no definite document is among them to prove that she took to the air before September 16, 1910, the date of Dr. Raiche's historic Long Island flight.

"I started flying the last week in August at Glenn Curtiss' place at Hammondsport, N. Y.," Miss Scott related.

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