WOMEN AIR PILOTS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 14

WOMEN AIR PILOTS

Mrs. Miller has thrilled women by her adventurous trip in an airplane from England to Australia. Shut oft' as we uve from.tho busy centres of the old world, we have not understood that many women are ac much at' home in the air as on the land or sea, states an Australian writer. The. adventurous<spirit crops up in all sorts of places. A group of girls in Mexico the other day,made application to join the School of Civil Aviation. "We are just as able to fly airplanes as women in the.United States and Europe," they said. So they are anxious to qualify to become pilots, and in course 'of time to smash records. The girls are to have their way. There are no regulations which prevent women from becoming pilots in Mexico. It remains to be seen whether they can stand the tests which the flying school imposes. No doubt some of them will prove .competent. Aviation is in its infancy. Tho things which seem wildly improbnblc and adventurous will presently be taken as a matter of course. Just as girls handle powerful motors to-day, assuredly they will fly airplanes to-morrow. It will not be long before Australian women are reaching into the niiHvays of our continent. No doubt it will be as ordinary an event as motoring, and country women will lly to town for an afternoon's shopping or uncial functions and amusements. When that-day does' come the country, isolation nnd hardships will be over.