A “FLYING TYPIST”
Young Girl’s Ambition Dominion Special Service. (By Mavis.) London, April 20. An 18-year-old girl, of Hove, Miss Yvonne Hackworth, has invented a new profession for women. She intends to become the first “flying typist.” For two years she has been studying flying with that career in mind. “I’m an expert shorthand-typist,” she says, “and my real object in learning to fly is to get a job as a flying typist. “I want to become a pilot-chauffeur to an important business man and couple with the job of flying him to conferences, the post of private secretary. I already have my ‘A’ license and in a few more months, when I get my ‘B’ license I shall set about getting the job I’ve planned for myself.” When Jliss Hackworth starter! to fly at the age of 16 she was one of the youngest girls ever to have handled an aeroplane.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 218, 10 June 1933, Page 7
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