WOMEN PILOTS
NEARLY 4,000 AIRCRAFT CROSS ATLANTIC ONLY FOURTEEN DAMAGED. — BRITISH MINISTER'S TRIBUTE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 26. I Women Atlantic ferry pilots have delivered to Britain 3900 | which only 14 have been damaged.. This was announced at a luncheon today at which the Minister of Aircraft Production, Lieut.-Colonel MooreBrabazon. paid a high tribute to the work of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary. It was while serving in this organisation that Miss Amy Johnson was killed, and today many tributes were paid to her memory. Miss Pauline Gower, who started the women’s section of the service, recalled that a memorial scholarship was being foimed whereby women could learn to fly not at their own expense. Miss Gower said that at first the women's section was allowed to fly only Moth machines, but now there was no limitation to the types of aircraft they could fly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1941, Page 6
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