GIRLS WHO FLY
VICTIMS OF AVIATION LURE. Girls in their earliest youth are now caning up aviation in .Britain. The i2-year-old daughter of the Secretary of State for Air, the Marquess of Londonderry, is already able to take over ( me controls qt an aeroplane. joan Hughes, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, has devoted her Saturday mornings tor the last six months to flying lessons. She has made such progress that she has already had several -solo bights. She is determined to make aviation her career, and means to-ob-tain all possible qualifications, even that of ground engineer, and then, join her brother in his air-taxi business. . A Joan savs her parents were wornea when she‘first began to learn to fly, but her father is now reconciled, ana has made several flights with her; but her mother'refuses to go near an aerodrome. ,
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 March 1934, Page 13
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