AERIAL WOMEN.
In the "Woman at Home” Mias Isabel Brooke-JUdcr describes some of the mod noted women who have distingr-iehel themselves as air-voyagers. The first ht-g. ifcta-raan to venter, on an aer:al trip was Mrs Sago.who went tip in a ha’loon'■ irb V ncento h’.’.nardo in 1784. • Ifadame Fiarnmorion parted her honeymoon in a <alloon in 1374. Ifrs Astheton-Harbord was tho first lady to cross ‘he Chan-cl in her own ba'oon Mise Gertrude Bacon s ad ventures in hniioon and aeron’ane ere re ferred to. A photogranh is given of tho first aerial pi’ofs certificate issued to a woman. It was taken by Madame d« T.rroche in March of last - vcar - Sheila O'Hcill’s aeroplane is also desen!,' etU
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7449, 25 May 1911, Page 5
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118AERIAL WOMEN. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7449, 25 May 1911, Page 5
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