The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4. WOMEN AND AVIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 42, 4 October 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4. WOMEN AND AVIATION.

Mrs Maurice Hewlett has the distinction of being the lirst woman to gain the Royal Aero Club’s pilot aviator certificate by making the necessary flights at Brooklands, though quite a considerable number of women have made ascents both by.balloon and by biplanes or monoplanes, one of the best known women balloonists being Mrs Assheton Harbord, who in 1906 won the Krabbc Cup for' the longest voyage in England, London to Driffield, in Yorkshire. Other well-known balloonists are Mrs Griffith Brewer, who was the first woman to cross the Channel; Mrs lltcd Nichnll, who (as Miss V.era Butler) helped ho found the Aero Club; Miss Gertrude Bacon, and Mrs Capper. The president of the Women’s Aero Club in Paris, “La Stella,’.’ is Madame Surcouf, who lias obtained her pilot’s license, and last year Mile-. Helene Dutrieu flew from Blankenborghe to Bruges on her aeroplane, carrying a passenger with her. She flow at an average height of 1200 feet and circled the famous belfry. Milo. Dutrieu has her pilot aviator certificate, uul so lias Mile. Marvingt. In England the first woman to fly in her aeroplane was Mrs Cody. It may not bo generally known that the Women’s Aerial League has offered scholarships of £SO for three years to a student of aviation at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. There is a -children’s branch in connection with this league.