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CHATTANOOGA NEWS-FREE PRESS. CHATTANOOGAA 1, TENN., THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1957. State Woman Gets Helicopter Permit MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (AP)— A Morristown flier, Mrs. Evelyn Bryan, has become the 20th woman in aviation history to obtain a helicopter pilot's license. Mrs. Bryan, co-manager of Morristown Municipal Airport, received her commercial helicopter license last week at Lakeland, Fla., where she took special instruction. Mrs. Bryan has been flying 12 years and has been an instructor for 10. She has logged 6,100 hours in the air. THE JEFFERSON COUNTY STANDARD Wednesday, February 27, 1957 [---] Mrs. Bryan Now Helicopter Pilot Mrs. Evelyn Bryan has just added another to her already creditable list of flying accomplishments. She is now a licensed commercial helicopter pilot having completed the required training course at Lakeland, Fla., last week. Despite her many hours of flying many different types of planes from cubs to multi-engine craft, Mrs. Bryan said that "flying a helicopter is the most fascinating thing I have ever done." Her aviation exploits include ferrying a plane to South America last December, 1955. [---] Page 2 The Knoxville News-Sentinel Monday, March 4, 1957 [---] WOMAN PILOTS HELICOPTER By Associated Press MORRISTOWN, March 4 — A Morristown flier, Mrs. Evelyn Bryan, has become the 20th woman in aviation history to obtain a helicopter pilot's license. Mrs. Bryan, co-manager of Morristown Municipal Airport, received her commercial helicopter license at Lakeland, Fla. [---] 12 THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL Tuesday, March 5, 1957 [---] Woman Flier Gets Helicopter Pilot License MORRISTOWN, March 4 (AP)—A Morristown flier, Mrs. Evelyn Bryan, has become the twentieth woman in aviation history to obtain a helicopter pilot's license. Mrs. Bryan, co-manager of Morristown Municipal Airport, received her commercial helicopter license at Lakeland, Fla., where she took special instruction. Mrs. Bryan has been flying 12 years and has been an instructor for 10. She has logged 6100 hours in the air. DAILY GAZETTE - MAIL SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1957 [---] M'town Flier 20th Woman To Get Helicopter Rating A Morristown flier is the twentieth woman in aviation history to obtain a helicopter pilot's license. Mrs. Evelyn Bryan, who lives in Jefferson City and is co-manager of the Morristown municipal airport, received her Commercial Helicopter Pilot license last week in Lakeland, Fla., where she had taken special instruction. The veteran flier said yesterday that "naturally I am a little bit proud of the rating. It was more fun than any other rating I have ever gotten." Mrs. Bryan has been flying for twelve years and instructing for ten. She has logged 6,100 hours in the air, or 254 days of solid flying. She has competed four times in the All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race ("Powder Puff Derby") and once in the All-Woman International Race. Now that she has acquired her 'copter rating, Mrs. Bryan has automatically become a member of an international club known as "The Whirly Girls," women who are licensed private or commercial helicopter pilots. Mrs. Bryan is the fifteenth U. S. woman to make the club. The other five members come from France (2), Germany, New Zealand, and Puerto Rico. [---]