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F THE WE
TEMBER 27, 1955

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Defense
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Aviatrix of Yesteryear Here on Quest
By James Benet

  The woman who was probably the first ever to fly an airplane is in San Francisco.

  Appropriately, she is looking for old airplanes.

"Airplanes are like pins, they just disappear," she says. Her job is to find them.

She is Blanche Stuart Scott, who soloed September 6, 1910, when "there were probably not more than 75 people in the world who knew how to fly."

Her teacher was the famous aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss.

Today, after a career that has included screen-writing TV and radio production work and much else on top of her flying career, she is consultant to the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. In that position she is traveling the country hunting for aviation relics.

RELICS WANTED
She hopes people who have such relics—even if not a whole airplane but perhaps just a picture of one—will get in touch with her at the St. Francis Hotel.

"It's amazing about the planes, though," she said yesterday. "I got a P-63 for the museum, a World War II Bell Aircobra. Larry Bell told me a hundred were built, and beside the one we got he knows of just one more. Nobody knows where the other 98 have gone.

"I got Lindbergh's Lockheed Sirius, too, the one he flew to the Orient. Of course the Spirit of St. Louis that flew the Atlantic is in the Smithsonian, but we're going to get the replica they built for the Lindbergh movie being made now."

'A SPOILED BRAT'
Her own career? Well, she really got started as a flyer by driving a car.

"I was a spoiled brat, an only child. I had my own car when I was 13."

In May, 1910, she and Amy L. Phillips, a newspaper woman, started driving a car across the continent from New York as a publicity stunt for Overland.

"Every night we wired all the 182 Overland dealers through the country to tell them where we were, and they moved the picture of us that they had stuck on a big map in their showroom windows.

"When we got out West we
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