WOMAN AIR PILOT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 149, 28 June 1929, Page 3

WOMAN AIR PILOT

FIRST M VICTORIA

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 23rd May. That more women do not take up flying surprises Miss K. Bloomfield, of St. Kilda, tho first woman-in Victoria to gain her pilot's license. She has just passed the final test and. a pretty severe one at that. At any rate, the test was just'as severe as that 'set for a man, and this young woman, came through with flying colours. If women ' only knew how thrilling flying was, said Miss Bloomfield, she was certain that the number of women flyers would soon increase. At present there were five flying women members of the Victorian section of the Australian Aero Club. Miss Bloomfield was not content with merely flying. She wanted to have her hands on the controls —and, like most women, she is haying her own way now. "I first caught the flying craze,," she said, '' when I was in Great Britain last year and flew as a passenger from London to Brussels. Soon: after I got back to^Melbourne I became frightfully keen on learning, and I began to take lea--sons. Every day for the past two months—except when the weather made flying out of the question—l have been up in .the air for• about half-an-hour. I need not say that I have not attempted to do any acrobatic feats yet. What I may do later, of course, remains to be seen. Plying is very difficult. You must keep your mind on what you are doing. And if you.don't—well.!' Born in Melbourne 24 years ago Miss Bloomfield has been keen to secure the best education possible, and she boasts B.A. after her name.' When she.took her degree at the Melbounre University she went to the United States, where she did a year's post-graduate work at ■the Harvard University. Then came a tour of Great Britain and the Continent. She is a splendid type of out-door, athletic girl. She is keen on motoring. In between her studies of economics she likes a game of chess best of all. ' Like most other people who have the experience she considers that Australia is tho ideal country for aviation. She is considering entering the commercial side of the business later on, when she has had greater experience. The future of flying in Australia, she says, has enormous possibilities.