WOMEN PILOTS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10827, 26 March 1932, Page 4

WOMEN PILOTS.

“WORSE THAN WINGED DRAGONS.” Loudon, March 15An attack on women air pilots was a feature of the discussion on the Air estimates, The young bachelor member Mr W. R. D. Perkins, opposing grants to flying clubs, said it was common knowledge that with certain exceptions, women in the air were notoriously, dangerous. Personally, he would rather find himself flying in formation with a winged dragon than with a woman pilot. He proceeded to argue that, as women’s services cannot be utilised in wartime, owing to international conventions, it was a waste of public money to teach them to fly. Sir Samuel Instone a director of Imperial Airways addressing the London Professional Businesswomen’s Club said that women had played a great part in British civil aviation the position of which to-day was almost entirely attributable to their! interest.

Ninety per cent, of Imperial Airways’ earlier passengers were women. Men always found an excuse for refraining from flying. The majority of passengers even to-day were women.