Women and Flying
LACKING AS COMMERCIAL PILOTS HAROLD GATTY GIVES SOME HOME TRUTHS ’ [By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright] Received May 26, 10.30 p.m. SYDNEY, Alay 26. Harold Gatty, addressing a business girls’ luncheon to-day, told his hearers that women, with few exceptions, were entirely lacking in the temperament required of commercial pilots. There was, however, plenty of room for women on the administrative and executive sides of aviation. He added that the majority of women pilots were only spurred on to do big things in the air through luck of the personal charm necessary in their every-day existence, and this lack drove them to express themselves by flying across oceans and continents. Jean Batten was the exception. “She is easy to look at,” he added.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 124, 27 May 1936, Page 7
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124Women and Flying Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 124, 27 May 1936, Page 7
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