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America's First Woman Flier Likes Jet Ride

Cleveland, Sept. 6 (U.P.)—
Mrs. Blanche Stewart Scott, 56, the first woman in America to fly an airplane, took a ride in a jet plane today with the nation's top supersonic pilot.

"It's wonderful. Really a superior way to travel," she said as she climbed out of the jet trainer.

Just 38 years ago today Mrs. Scott got behind the controls of a Curtiss pusher and, after an oral briefing on the rudiments of flying, took off.

Today, the Air Force treated her to a ride with Capt. Charles E. Yeager in the two-place TF-80C, the trainer version of the Shooting Star.

Transcription Notes:
I have only transcribed the column pertaining to Blanche. Copyright is marked below Cary Grant article: Copyright, 1948, by the Chicago Tribune. Dateline for article above Blanche's reads "NEW YORK, Sept 6" [[?]]