WOMEN PILOTS
A Danger to Airmen SAYS BACHELOR M.P. (Ans. & N.Z. Cable Assn). LONDON, Alarch 16. An attack on women pilots was a feature of the discussion on the Air Estimates in the House of Commons A young bachelor, Air W. R. D. Perkins (Conservative, Gloucester, Stroud) opposed the grants to flying clubs. He said that it is common knowledge to every air pilot that, with certain exceptions, women in the air are 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 war time, owing to the international conventions, it was a waste of public money to teach them to fly.
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Grey River Argus, 17 March 1932, Page 5
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124WOMEN PILOTS Grey River Argus, 17 March 1932, Page 5
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