TRAVELLERS BY AIR.
e THE OVER FORTY CLASS. SUPERIOR COURAGE OF WOMEN. LONDON, Jan. 4. The Director of Civil Aviation, Sir Sefton Brancker, opening a schoolboys’ exhibition of aeroplanes, wireless and electrical installations, related the story of an octogenarian woman who flew to England after undergoing a cure at Baden Baden. This alarmed her friends, who assembled at Croydon to remonstrate with her for her daring, but she alighted, saying she had found Hying very dull. Sir Sefton added: “A woman over 40 years is braver than a man over 40, where flying is concerned. That is a. slur on our manhood that the rising generation must remove.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 January 1926, Page 8
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