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[[caption]] Aviatrix Was Featured on Air Show Posters [/caption]]

Blanche S. Scott, Pioneer Aviator, to be Speaker
By Shirley Williams

Blanche Stuart Scott, America's first woman aviator to fly solo and the first woman to drive an automobile across the continent, will speak in Utica next Wednesday night.

Mrs. Scott, a native of Rochster, will discuss "Women's Contribution to Early Aviation: at Zonta Club's annual Amelia Earhart scholarship dinner at 6 [[in?]] Ventura's Restaurant.

The dinner program is open to the public. Reservations may be made by Tuesday noon with Zonta president, Miss Vivian Knapp. Miss Isabelle Angelini is program chairman.

The Earhart fellowship was adopted by Zonta International in 1938 with the project sup-

Cochrain, aviatrix and air racer; Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, test pilot and leader of World War II Tokyo raid; Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, top US ace in World War I and airline executive; William Piper, dean of American private aircraft manufacturers, and Gen. Carl Spaatz, first USAF chief of staff and World War II bomber commander.
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When Mrs. Scott was 18, she wrote to John Willys, a leading motor car builder whose Overland was one of the most popular automobiles of the day. She suggested to him that she drive on of his cars from New York to San Francisco to demonstrate to the world that driving coast to coast was so simple even a woman could do it.

Willys saw the idea as a [[cut off]]
before she reached San Francisco.
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Mrs. Scott learned to fly with aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss and made her first test flight on Aug. 18, 1910. She later appeared in flying exhibitions throughout the country.

The aviatrix later won claim to being the first woman test pilot when she joined Glenn Martin, the plane builder in California.

For several years during the 1950s, Mrs. Scott worked for the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, traveling around this country and Europe gathering material and support for the museum. 

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[[image: picture of air show poster]]