WOMEN AVIATORS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 44, 6 October 1911, Page 8

WOMEN AVIATORS.

In the last issue of the journal ‘Health and Homo” personal accounts are given by the Baroness do Laroche, Mademoiselle Marie Mar/ingt, and Madame Franck, each of vhom describes her most exciting light in an aeroplane. The Baroness le Laroche practised for some time, then broke, her arm, and afterwards gained her pilot’s certificate. In spite of her previous accident she did not, lack the nerve to ascend high enough to fly over houses and forests, and to turn three times. In the presence of the Czar she left St. Petersburg, and flew from there to Budapest; and she afterwards ascend'd at IjEpuen, and subsequently at ilheims was nearly killed. But she is enthusiastic in her,, admiration of dlio sporty and will ja, all probability try it again . Mademoiselle Mar/ingt speaks of her experiences as ntoxicating. She ,h;ul up to now io accidents, but has., experienced plenty, of., trouble from, air currents md “pockets.” , She,,says the sport is incomparable with others, and she is sure, it will in time become most popular. “Many of us will perish mfore then,” she says, but that porspect will not dismay the braver spirits.” a Madame Franck in her account tells that the first time she nade an ascent as a passenger a pipe if tho radiator burst and scalded her back. She exclaimed in agony to •ho pilot, but bo did not understand if reach, so she thumped him until ho looked round and saw the steam, and then they p'aned down in a giddy dement. Siie next took flight with the .anions aviator Henry Farman, and since then has become a professional lomonstrator. The first time she essayed to make a public ascent the a inti blew too hard, lint the spectators were so angry that towards evoling, as the wind dropped, madame started alone on her voyage. After gifting clear of tho houses and high ■hiinneys a sudden fog came on, and the poor woman lost her way, and inally descended in a meadow, where ■she was discovered by her husband, cogetlier ’ with her business managers, vbo expected to find lier lying under her macliino. In'America there is mo woman with a pilot’s license. As yet no English woman has qualiisd herself; indeed, the difficulties ire such that very few men have attained a certificate.