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National Air Show NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1937. Boasted Authorities Were Behind It, Witne[[?]] First Woman to Fly Plane Kisses and Tells of Early Days in Air [text under image] [[?]]tiss watching Blanche [[?]]in the "undertaker's [[?]]preparing for one of her flights [[image]] When she was Daredevil Betty Scott. [[image]] World-Telegram Staff Photo Blanche Stuart Scott as she appears today. [[image]] Under those bloomers were three petticoats. [[cut off]]Scott Has Reunion [[cut off]]with Aviation [[cut off]]als of 1911 [[cut off]]By E. K. Titus [[cut off]]d.Telegram Staff Writer [[cut off]] men have kissed Blanche [[?]]Scott this week than had in [[cut off]]she said today. She was the [[cut off]]man ever to fly a plane, and [[cut off]]here for the National Air [[cut off]]hose greeting her included [[cut off]] hadn't seen since her [[cut off]]days of 1911. There were [[cut off]]s, Hank Miller, Ernie Jones, [[cut off]], famous balloonist; Cap- [[cut off]]ace Wild, dirigible man, [[cut off]]y Childs. [[cut off]]ott, who is usually called [[cut off]]who is at the Hotel [[cut off]]worried only by some [[cut off]] that have got out, [[cut off]]rly flying costumes. [[cut off]]e's a modern look- [[cut off]]her neatly cut black [[cut off]] [[cut off]]k of those costumes [[cut off]]ures of them," she [[cut off]]n't fit to print in [[cut off]]e bloomers, however [[cut off]][[?]]he time by a Fifth [[cut off]]hey were the last [[cut off]]I have to take it on [[cut off]]ay when somebody [[cut off]]otographs! [[cut off]]ut There. [[cut off]] was cold out there [[cut off]]ndertaker's chair' you [[cut off]]e plane, and it was [[cut off]]r the bloomers you [[cut off]]of cloth[[?]] [[cut off]]pectable women wore [[cut off]]oats. My three were [[cut off]]in there, stuffed under [[cut off]] [[cut off]]confessed that her first flight, which also was the first flight of any woman flier, was involuntary. It was while she was learning the art from Glenn H. Curtiss. "In those days," she recunted, "they didn't take you up in the air to teach you. They gave you a bit of preliminary ground training. They told you this and that. You got in. They kissed you goodbye, and trusted to luck you'd get back." Grass-Cutting Lesson. The ground training included "grass-cutting." This consisted of taxiing up and down the field, with the motor's speed checked by a governor to prevent the plane's rising from the ground. Miss Scott went to the Curtiss Airport at Hammondsport for this training. She stepped into the plane, and "grass-cut" down the field. "When I came back," she said, "a puff of wind caught me. It blew me into the air forty or fifty feet, and this seemed like 400. Yes, I got down all right. After that, I wasn't going to stay on the ground anymore, and I never did." A social Invitation. The uncertainty of flying in those days was illustrated by the following social invitation, which Miss Scott produced from her scrapbook:- "During Mrs. Marsh's musicale at Bellrose, L. I., next Saturday afternoon, Miss Scott will alight in her aeroplane, between the hours of 2:30 and 6 P. M. for tea." Miss Scott doesn't remember whether she got there at 2:30 or 6. This was in 1911. In 1912, the number of women fliers had been augmented to two. The second was Harriet Quimby, who was killed in Boston that year. Miss Scott, in the air at the same time, got down all right, and promptly was invited by Mayor Fitzgerald to call on him. The Mayor seized on the occasion to upbraid her before the assembled newspaper men, declaring women lacked the tact, nerve, and judgment to fly. Miss Scott never forgot that. Earhart the Answer. "The answer," she said, "is Amelia Earhart. And I wonder if Fitzgerald ever took time to go to Cleveland for the Powder Puff Air Derby?" Miss Scott disployed one of the first pieces of air mail. It was a card postmarked January 28, 1912, with her picture on it. She had mailed it to her mother in Rochester. Although the air holds no terrors for her, she revealed that until Monday she had never made a trip in one of the big transport planes. "It wasn't that I was afraid," she explained. Far from it. But I thought when I got into one of those things I would have to backseat drive. It's like a car. You see a chicken or something run across the road, and you wonder if the driver sees it too. You kind of want to grab the wheel." Actually, she slept an hour en route.
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