ALL MEN BARRED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 50, 15 March 1937, Page 8

ALL MEN BARRED

— Own Correspondent")

First Women's Aero Club in Britain FLYING -WEEK-ENDS

(By Air Mail-

LONDON, Feb. 7. Blonde Barbara Blair, from Broadway, |s forming the first flying club for women. Sh© is calling it "The Swallow Club," and already has four prospective members to make up the total of ©leven — her lucky number. "1'm learning to fly at Hanworth, and have my solo test to pass," she said. "I apend by Sunday afternoons in the air over London. I've travelled thousands of miles by air as a passenger, and 1 sometimes I was upset on bumpy days;. but I've never been airsick while learning to handl© a 'plane. "Flying in England is much safer than motoring. There are plenty of landing grounds and they're almost unuspd. The idea is that the eleven Swallows leam to fly, buy their own planes and have flying week-ends. I don't want men in the club, at least, not yet. "My friend, a German baronesB, who is my fellow founder member, has been studying aero-engines for six months, but I don't intend members . to be mechanics. Flying is the finest thrill I know. A girl can take it up and still look attractive." Miss Blair, who created the character of "Snooney" on the radio in America, is to produce "Take it Easy," a musical revue, in London during the Coronation season.