AIR AMAZONS
SOVIET WOMEN. BEST FOR HIGH FLYING. (Received 10 a.m.) MOSCOW, August 13. “Women air pilots are specially suitable for fighting at great altitudes,” declared M. Grohobsky, a leading aviation expert. “Exhaustive tests have proved that delicate and sensitive girls, specially selected, are not affected my rarified atmosphere, even at heights of more than 26,000 feet. “On the other hand the best men pilots in perfect training generally need oxygen respirators at (heights above 21,000 feet. Respirators obstruct the view and impair fighting skill. Girls also have completely beaten men at parachute jumping.
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Northern Advocate, 15 August 1935, Page 7
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