WOMEN IN THE AIR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 September 1929, Page 7

WOMEN IN THE AIR

• FLYING IN AUSTRALIA,

MRS. TERRY’S AEROPLANE

SYDNEY, Aug. 23,

The first Sydney airwoman to own licr own aeroplane is Mrs. Terry, whoso imported machine reached Sydney a ■day or two ago. Enthusiastic motorist, and surf-bath-•cr, as well as flier, Mrs Terry is of a slimness of physique which might load one unacquainted with the art of flying to doubt her ability to handle the ■controls of a big machine in tho air. Most of Sydney’s airwomen, as a matter of fact, arc of small stature, and this, curiously enough, aplies, it is said, to most of the world’s fair fliers. The latest of Sydney’s women to ■emerge successfully from the course of flying instruction, Miss Deaton, is only a-slip of a girl. She left college but a year or two back. The smallness of stature of most of Sydney’s airwomen •contrasts strikingly with the giant proportions of some of its airmen. The late Mr. Neil Stewart, as one illustration, was a young giant in weight and in - height. Flying, of course, is not a question of avoirdupois, but a question of air sense and flying instinct, cool nerves to meet any emergency, and lightness of touch at the controls. The fact that no women are taking part in the big cross-continent flight from Sydney to Perth next month is a little surprising, for in Sydney alone there are several resourceful women fliers easily capable of making tho journey, which .will be in such short stages as to eliminate any unusual hazards. Among the starters will be Gaptain Hugh Grosvenor, A.D.C. to the ■Governor of South Australia. It was this daring young flier who, in a flight round Australia, narrowly missed And ■ jng Moir and Oweuwhen he went out of his way to search for them.