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TROUT: 
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Back in 1910 when the infant aviation, which has become a giant, was seven years old, a small woman with great vision seated herself at the controls in the frail cockpit of a plane and took off in her first solo flight. It was daring--the flying crates of those days compared to the modern liners as a wagon to a streamlined motor-with unknown dangers lurking with every rise in altitude. But Blanche Scott did not hesitate, and after that first solo set out to blaze new trails. Blanche Stuart Scott was the first woman to [[strikethrough]] cross the continent by auto in 1910, who was in....the first woman to fly the continent. [[/strikethrough]] fly an airplane. But let Miss Scott herself recall those early flying years...

SCOTT:
Thank you Mr. Trout. As I came up here to the studio this afternoon, it reminded me that there might be a parallel in the situation. Almost twenty seven years ago at the old Hammondsport Field I breathed a sigh of relief as a plane with myself as the pilot soared off the ground. The relief was accompanied by the thought "I'm in the air." Today, a change of one word will make the expression I'm on the air. 
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