WOMEN PILOTS
MISS CANADA TAKING TO AIR
(From "Tho Post's" Representative.) VANCOUVER, 27th November. Since the first Canadian girl received her air pilot's licence eighteen months ago, many others have qualified by tests, which include winter flying. The tests are said to be more severe than m the case of men—on account of the candidates being of the "frail sex " A very rigorous medical examination is one of them.
Approximately a dozen lady pilots are now licensed, in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, and St. John, N. 8.. Although it is said that women cannot handle big machines, Miss Burke, of Calgary, flies a five-passenger plane, preferring it to a Moth. When she we.ut_ for her pilot's examination she obtained higher marks than the male candidates.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 9
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