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FLIGHT ANNIVERSARY

First U.S. Woman Flyer Celebrates At Air Show

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MISS SCOTT...pioneer

OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 3 --(AP)-- Blanche Stuart Scott, America's first woman pilot, celebrated her 46th anniversary as a flyer today.

She took note of the occasion to announce tha tin the past year she has acquired a quarter of a million dollars worth of historical aviation material virtually all of it in the form of gifts from the owners--for the Air Force museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force base, Dayton .

With that assignment completed, Miss Scott reported that she is seeking new work, preferably in public relations. Meanwhile she is resting at her farm home, Hornell, N. Y. 

"Anyone who has lived on excitement all his life has to stay active or disintegrate," she said. "I have to keep going to keep healthy."

Miss Scott, who has had 13 years of radio and television experience in Rochester, N. Y., and Los Angeles, said she had in mind a television aviation show calling upon new and old flyers to tell stories of modern developments and pioneer incidents relating to aircraft.

Miss Scott soloed in a Curtiss pusher airplane after three days of instruction from Glenn L. Curtiss at Hammondsport, N. Y., early in September, 1910.

She said that a French baroness learned to fly in Europe "two days or two weeks--I have never found out which--before I did, and I have never forgiven her for it." No American woman had yet flown, however, she said. Because no formal licensing of pilots had then been developed, Miss Scott never did acquire a license during her six years of flying.

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