Air-minded Miss Germany.
OYER.SO GIRL PILOTS, > German girls are taking to the air. There are now more than 50 Avomcn who are licensed pilots, and avlio are perfectly at hoimp at the controls of an aeroplane. The best knoAvn of the Avomcn pilots there is Thea Rasche. She was the first Avoman to secure a pilot’s license in post-Avar days there. Partnered Avith Ernst Udet, the German stunting ace, she soon acquired the name of “Reckless Thea.” Not only in the field of heavier-than-air machines have the German girls distinguished themselves. Sophie •Thomas...is one of .the; few, if not the only, Women in tlve world eligible to pilot a lighter-than-aiv dirigible. Fried! Reinieks/who could pass for a film star, holds' several Avomen’s records for glided’flying. In mentioning the young German girls who have earned their wings, you must include Germany’s first girl flyer, a balloonist. ’’’ Wilhelmine Rcichard, on May 4, 1907, Avas the first Avoman to take to the air. She was followed three years later by Kaete Paulus.
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Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19122, 6 June 1934, Page 3
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