WOMEN IN THE R.A.F.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 307, 30 December 1942, Page 6

WOMEN IN THE R.A.F.

ISE FOR U.S. GIRL FLYERS Los Angeles. Second-Officer Polly Potter of the British Air Transport Auxiliary has one goal in mind. To see American women serving in the Army Ferrying Command to the same extent that feminine flyers are aiding the R.A.F. Home in furlough from her English flying post. Miss Potter is restless about what she terms "the unnecessary idleness of good women fliers." Furthermore she has four months of service and some 500 hours of flying time in Britain to hack up her contention that the United States is missing a good flying bet. The first girl to he recruited by Jackie Cochran, famed woman speed flyer, to help ferry planes for R.A.F.. the comely, dark eyed Miss Potter has almost 1500 air hours in her log book. She has flown Hurricane fighters. Magisters and Miles Masters training ships, Oxfords and Avro Ansons. twinengine ships. Lysander Monoplanes and “airy Battle pursuits for the British and never scratched a wing tip. She has been billeted at an English •state replete with badminton court and swimming pool; she has known the hospitality of the British flying services and she has ferried scores of R.AtF. pilots back and forth over the English countryside. But she still wants to fly for her own country—“if they’ll give me a chance.” Record Spotless The A.T.A. flyer came home by clipper plane to undergo an operation on her jaw necessitated by an infected tooth. She has been flying 15 years and her advice to American women pilots is: “Get all of the instrument flying