WOMEN AVIATORS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1374, 27 February 1912, Page 9

WOMEN AVIATORS.

Mrs; Assheton llarbord, who has just been awarded the Royal Aero Club challenge cup presented by Mr. John Dunvillo for the longest aggregate distance covered by balloon in three consecutive years, is oiio of the best-known women balloonists. In 190G she won tho Krabbe Cup for the longest voyage by balloon in EnglandLondon to Driffield, in Yorkshire. I'or tho Aero Club challenge cup she went from Hurlingham to Hagen, in Westphalia, in ISW9; in 1310 slie made n crossChannel flight to La Cluatre (Depart ment Indre), in Trance; and on December 29 she went from Pembroke Dock to Witham, Essex, a distance of nearly 250 miles. This-last was the. longest balloon voyage ever made in England. On each ocension Mrs. JTarbord's pilot was Mr. C. V. Pollock. Other women balloonists include Mrs. Griffith Brewer, who was the first balloonist to cross tho Channel; Mrs. Moore Brabazon (formerly Miss-Krabbe), Miss Gertrude Bacon, Mrs. Capper, and Mrs. Eltid Nicholl, who (as Miss Vera Butler) was one of the founders of the Aero Club. Mrs. Maurice Hewlett, wife of the novelist, was the first Englishwoman to. obtain tho Royal Aero Club's pilot aviator certificate. Sirs. Assheton llarbord made her hundredth ascent in June.