WOMEN AND AVIATION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1252, 7 October 1911, Page 11

WOMEN AND AVIATION.

'Although Mrs. Maurice Hewlett is tho first woman to gain thoKoyal Aero Club's pilot aviator certificate by making the necessary fligEts at Brookiands, , says an English writer, quite a considerable number of women have made ascents Ixith by balloou aud by biplanes or monoplanes, ono of the be.si-km.wn women balloonists beinft'Assheton Harlord,' who in-1906 won the Krabbe Cup for tlie longest voya»e in England, london, to""JUHffie!(l, in' ; Yorkshire. Other well-known ballobrristV aro' Mrs.. Griffith Brewer, who was tho first woman to cross tho Channel: Jfrs. Ilted Nidioll, who (as.lliss Vera Butler) helped to found tho Aero Club; Miss Gertrudo Bacon, and Mrs. Capper. Tho president of the Aero Club in Paris, "La Stella," is Madame Surcouf, who has obtained her pilot's liconje, and last year Mile. Helene Dutrieu (lew from Blankenbergho to Bruges on her aeroplane, carrying a passenger with her. She flew lit an average height of 1200 feet, and circled the famous brifry. Mile. Dutrieu has her pilot aviator certificate, and fo has Mile. Marvingt. In England tho first woman try fly in her aeroplane was Mrs. Cody. It may not be generally known that tho Women's Aerial League has offered scholarships of .£SO for threo years to a student of aviation at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. There is a children's branch in connection irith this league. ;