FOURTEEN WOMEN IN AEROPLANE
When a big air-liner drew up at the arrival platform at the London air station at Croydon, recently, all the fourteen passengers who stepped down from its saloon wore women. "More than 50 per cent, of air travellers are now women,” said an Imperial Airways official. One woman who flies regularly between. London and Paris was asked whether she did so to save time. "No,” she answered, laughing, "it is chiefly for the sake of the complexion.” And she explained that her nerves and general health were benefited enormously by the swift rushes high through the air, as compared with the dust and fatigue of earth’s transport.
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Shannon News, 17 July 1928, Page 4
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111FOURTEEN WOMEN IN AEROPLANE Shannon News, 17 July 1928, Page 4
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