HELEN RICHEY, Central Airlines D-Pilot and First Woman to Fly the Mail

April, 1935 10 cents a copy - One dollar a year Vol. 2, No. 5.

Photo by Parry Studio HELEN RICHEY, Central Airlines In This Issiklj D-pilot and first woman to fly the mail. FLYING PALS GARDEN NAVIGATION AIR MASS METEOROLOGY 2 CONTENTS

Garden Navigation— By Mabel Billion ...... 3 Just Among Us Girls— By "Mister” Swanee Talory ...... 4 Flying Pals ...... 5 Along Feminine Lines ...... 6 Come On In ...... 7 Michigan's F. E. R. A. Ground Schools— By Alice C. Hirschman... 7 Aerial Photography ...... 8 Lines in the Sky— By Pat O'Malley ...... 9 Magazines— By Mabel Britton ...... 9 Air Mass Meteorology— By Philip Del Vecchio ...... It) The New Perspective— By Frieda W. van Emden ...... II Pot and Pan Mechanics ...... 12 Airwise Alaska (continued from last month)— By William Littery 12 Fashions in Flight— By Fay Gillis ...... 13 THE 99er ...... 14 W. N. A. A. Contact ...... 15 Bread and Butter and Aviation ...... 16 Cloud Club— By Betsy Barton ...... 17 NEXT MONTH'S issue will feature gliding. There will also be more "Veterans of the Air” (flying children of flying parents). Don't fail to send us quickly some of the veterans you know.

AIRW OM AN, the magazine of sky talk for women who fly and for those who are still earthbound but interested, is the official organ of the 99 Club of women pilots and of the Women's National Aeronautical Association. AIRW OM AN is distributed on American Airlines, Boston-Maine and Central Vermont Airways, Central Airlines, Eastern Airlines, Pan American Airways, Pennsylvania Airlines, Transcontinental and Western Airlines and United Airlines. AIRWOMAN, Volume 2, Number 5, April, 1935. Published monthly by Airwoman. Inc., at Hotel Gotham, Fifth Avenue and 55th St., New York temptingly gay atmosphere that gives City. Editorial offices. Hotel Gotham. Fifth Ave. and 55th St., New York, N. Y., U. S. A. Clara Studer, Editor; Fay Gillis, Associate Editor; "happy landings" a new significance. Betsy Barton, Junior Editor; M argery Brown, Roving Reporter. Subscrip­ Here the furnishings . . the bar . . the tion $ 1 .00 per year, single copies 10 cents. Application for entry as second class matter is pending. Copyright 1935 by Airwoman, Inc., New decorations . . are all featured in a Y o rk C ity . smartly modern manner for your pleasure. A complete repertoire of exciting refresh­ ments, from which to choose your favorite concoction. All deference is paid "to the ladies"—the allegedly "hardy sex" is allowed only in your company . . \ 'V l

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OFFICIAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE 99 CLUB 6 WEST 57 + h STREET 3 GARDEN NAVIGATION By MABEL BRITTON

I am not going to talk in the distance, the river, the bay and the little town of W ilcox nearby. I about navigation in the the smoke of Toledo appeared. I was looked for Wilcox on the map without terms of sextant observa­ just 40 miles off my course on a 125 success until a burly young chap said, tion of the sun and stars, mile journey! "That map’s New Mexico, you’re in nor the complications of Michigan is a grand state for cross­ Arizona now.” Note: I mistook Lords­ instrument flying, since 1 country flying because the lakes on three burg for Deming—second bid for the know nothing about sides stop you, but you can, that is 1 can Dunce’s Cap. either, but of the homely, common- leak over into Ohio on the south. It is garden-variety of navigation which most a matter of grievance to me when so UT of five years’ flitting hither and of us use in getting from here to there. much alphabetical money is spent on im­ yon some common-sense habits O f this I am better qualified to write provement of airports that no one has O have developed. One is, to study the than anyone I know, since I possess a thought of the usefulness of painting course before leaving the ground; draw record which I am sure has never been state lines yellow. a line on the map to the destination, no­ broken. tice the character of the country, the ele­ In January, 1931, I flew from Ypsi- N O TH ER little record I hold is of vation, any special landmarks enroute, lanti to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to flying directly on my course—but and memorize the position of the land­ lunch with friends. After a pleasant 60 miles beyond my destination. This ing fields. Checking some landmark visit I was driven to the airport at about was in the days when I believed if a within five or ten minutes of the take-off 3:30 for the return trip. It was a bright Government strip map showed an airport is very important. Take-offs are often winter day with snow on the ground, marked, an airport was there. I was fly­ worrying and in the confusion ensuing the wind blowing'rather hard from the ing from El Paso to Tucson with a stop it is easy to start on the wrong path. A northwest. I climbed into my thick suit, at Lordsburg for lunch and gas. I was compass reading, check on a landmark settled into the cockpit, the engine following the railroad (a forced landing and correction for drift every 15 min­ roared— and I was off. I had glanced in that country away from the regular utes is just good sense. And always be at the wind-sock, in my quick efficient line of travel would be just too bad) on the look-out for the next landmark way, noted its direction and judged the and the first good landmark was Deming, ahead! Memorizing the position of land­ velocity to be about 20 m.p.h., then on a slight loop of the railroad, with air­ ing fields may seem unnecessary but it mentally calculated the triangle of the port marked south of town. I cruised sometimes saves worry. three forces (you remember how the along, passing several tiny settlements, Last summer I was flying from Glenn books tell u s?). I set my course at 103 one slightly larger with a highway cross­ Curtiss Field on Long Island to Mont­ degrees. ing which might be Deming. There was gomery, New York, 60 miles away. A no airport however. Forty-five minutes storm up the Hudson had held us on HE air was very smooth, the horizon later, on a northern loop of the railroad, the ground until late— it was a squeak sharp and clear, the snow-covered the town for which I was looking ap­ •if we could make it before dark, but T ground was dazzling in the sunshine.peared with airport as marked, just south. friends were waiting dinner for us so What a beautiful and comfortable way Mentally checking "Deming” I flew we took off. Instead of flying a direct to travel! I snuggled further down and cheerfully on down a slight incline and line across the mist-filled hills, we fol­ let the Waco fly herself. Occasionally up the next long loop which would lowed up the river, dark clouds ahead. I glanced at the compass. My thoughts bring me to a turn around the mountain I had memorized the position of New­ wandered to the gay talk at lunch— two and to Lordsburg. It seemed to be tak­ burgh, Montgomery and the airport. It new books mentioned which I must be ing much longer than I had expected; was lucky, for by the time we reached sure to read and that last play of the wind must be stronger, certainly the Newburgh it was too dark to read a map Katherine Cornell's. air was growing rougher every minute easily and besides a rocker-box broke Sometime later I looked at my watch and not then having learned to let the with a bang! Limping and clattering in with a start— how fast the journey had ship "ride" I was about exhausted fight­ on six cylinders, it was a relief not to seemed— 1 must be almost home. But ing the stick. An hour of this with the have to hunt for the airport. the country looked most unfamiliar; desert blazing below, the mountains though 1 was there, the lakes around looming ominously higher, then at last ECTIO N maps are now so excellent Chelsea and the spires of Ann Arbor the loop and turn ahead which meant the S that following them is a pleasure. I were not! For five minutes I continued field at Lordsburg, and about time too, still like the old Rand McNally state maps on the course looking searchingly for for the gas was low. I struggled around in flat country, however, as they give some known landmark; there was none. the pass— but no Lordsburg, nothing but every railroad junction and small village Another three minutes and a small town desert, alkali flats, more and wilder accurately. It might be worth while to appeared with, blessed be, a roof marked. mountains. know that railroad buildings are a dif­ Down 1 flew to read "Sw anton;” out I was pretty worried now, though ferent color on the different railway came the Michigan map but feverish there was still the railway and a highway lines; that targets on switch stands are search showed no such town. W ell, a too, and fifteen minutes later, the luck of a different shape and color for the double-track railroad running northeast of an emergency field! Thankfully I different railroads; that towns which from Swanton must lead to something I sat down. As usual twenty people sprang are county seats have a courthouse, usually would recognize, so along it 1 cruised up out of nowhere, to ask foolish ques­ with cupola, in the middle of a square; for about ten minutes until, unbelievably, tions, but also, kindly, to bring gas from (Continued on Page 6) 4 * ★ H appy Just Among Us Girls Standings By Mister Swanee Taylor (PARACHUTE GIRL) AN ALL METAL O h! girls!!!— W e had the gurandest time at the simply 19" heavenly 9 9 ’er party and Fashion Show, over on 8th Avenue, at the New Yorker Hotel. It was even well worth braving the mid-March gales to get cross town. The show was what LAMP may be called a two gat— I mean Gal show. That is, at least as with 12" Shade far as the couteriere phase was concerned. Alice Young and (8" at the Base) Leonora Ormsby turned loose on the floor nearly half a hun­ dred models between them, some of which reached as low as ★ ★ ★ ★ Finishes the lumbar curvature. W ere they handsome! . . . Stippled Gold On Of course il was the first time your big Bro. Ivory or Pastel Swanee ever announced one of those frills and Green flounces dingusses and it called for one or two shopping trips to the soda fountain with Larry $9-85 Cooper in order to jabber about those janes, as

Postage Paid they dead marched down the carpet, with no more information about their gowns than, say, Clip and Mail I have about Dionne Pore.

To AIRWOMAN,—Hotel Gotham, 5th Ave. at 55th St., New York City. Well, I’m not going to say anything about the lift-drift SHIP .....LAMPS - (IVORY) - (GREEN) ratios, or the gliding angles of the various creations. Style en- r0 :.... _ ...... gineering is ably covered in another department of this our blRbLl...... *.....•*••• city and state ...... modern woman magazine. But I must do a bit of reporting. PAYMENT ENCLOSED My journalistic pride demands that I record, and indelibly 1 hope, an incident that bears a stern moral. You see, there were two semi-professional mannequins who showed innumerable A gain y W a c o w rites A ir IIistarg models. They were bouncing in and out of the dressing room like rabbits in a hutch. And due to their numerous changes, I suppose they couldn’t very well wear slips. (Not side ones, boys). The effect was, to put it mildly, devastating. One man, a newspaper reporter, fainted dead away and had to be lugged outside into the cool air.

All in all it teas a swell party. Atul I could become very gay if only tlu‘ editorial policies of this publication were a bit more liberal. I can think of a lot of funny things to say about the various costumes. For example, our own dear little bride, Mrs. Fay Gillis Wells, wore a thing This time with a new 4-place Custom Cabin W ACO called, “Take-off.” Which, you must agree, is

Here truly is the last word in luxur­ sumption, lower operating cost, and sort of leading teith the chin. However, I can t ious, practical and economical air longer engine life. say a thing because the editorial board is unal­ transportation. This new WACO The Custom Cabin WACO is offer­ further emphasizes WACO leader­ ed with the following power plants terably set on keeping the book clean for the ship in design, construction, perfor­ and crusing speeds—Continental, 133 miles; Jacobs, 137 miles; mance and outstanding value. kiddies and Cy Caldwell. Wright, 145 miles; all based on 1900 Distinctive new lines permit an ap­ R. P. M. Detailed performance fig­ preciable increase in speed using ures will be supplied through any Let me commend to you this plan of raising money, girls. only 80% of the available horse­ WACO dcal’r or sent to you direct power. This means lower gas con­ upon request. The New York chapter did a wow of a job. I know naught of how they went about it, having resolutely fought shy of The Waco Aircraft Company, Troy, Ohio, U. S. A getting dragged in. But, speaking of results, they collared enough dough to buy a ship W hich means that members of the local chapter can hop about in the Taylor Cub at very low AIRPLANES cost. And I’ll wager that before the summer is gone the sweet "Ask Any P ilo t ” sisters will have another ship— meaning that the nucleus of the first 99’er squadron will have been formed. Why don’t WACO LEADS IN AIRCRAFT REGISTRATION the rest of you babies try something like it? FLYING PALS

Harriet Hibbard always has fair flying weather with Toby who looks like a fluffy cloud.

"Mittens" our only flying kitten, gives "Lassie," who is Queen of the Canines her doggie pals the once-over, from the because her mistress, Margaret Cooper arms of her protectress, Bessie Owen. (top corner) is president of the 99ers. Some dogs know their Master's Voice, but Lassie knows her Mistress' Motor.

Evelyn De Seversky trying to hold "Vodka" who has such fun rushin' around. (Right)

Blanche Noyes and "Tetraethyl." Just a Claire Marlin and her pal "Snooty" who is couple of "good old fliers" still going doing his best to live up to his name. strong. 6

Having had it from a book by C. A. Sims that "women constitute two-thirds of the pas­ sengers on the British regular airliners," we wanted to know why. Here are some details regarding the Britons’ method of moulding their air transport systems . . . ALONG FEMININE LINES

Gillespie, Director and Chief Back in 1924 British Imperial Air­ improved— still with an eye on the Instructor. ways decided that women were as good ladies. They were 38 seaters, divided Start your flight training now for Sport or prospects for air travel as men. into two cabins and built for comfort Professional career at world Renowned It was therefore necessary to make all rather than speed. Between the cabins, Roosevelt Aviation School, backed by eight plans for the future with one eye on the which were situated one behind the other, consecutive years and some 30,000 hours’ fair sex, so the company placed orders were a kitchen, a large baggage compart­ successful instructional operations, under for the Argosy type of airplane. These ment, and two washrooms— one for personal direction of Paul E. Gillespie, over­ machines were nineteen-seaters— at that women, the other for men. The wom­ seas war pilot, famous instructor for modern time the largest in the world. W hile en’s was the larger of the two and, of U. S. Navy, air mail pilot and instructor of they possessed features such as three course, much better appointed. mail pilots in instrument flying. Write for engines and a bar for men, they also The seats were so arranged that details, Booklet T. State course preference. had certain points which appealed to parties of four could sit together at tables Visit women and which up to then had not and play bridge, or, alternatively, there been considered. One was height, the were little two seat divans for couples. cabin or saloon being over six feet Two stewards served wines, cocktails and ROOSIVSIT AVWIIOW SCHOOL high. It was also almost square, which liquors and a full course lunch or din­ MINEOLA NEW YORK did not improve the outward ap­ ner with hors d'oeuvres, soup, roast, des­ pearance, but did enable ladies to stand sert, with "fixings,” was supplied at up and walk about with their hats on. It moderate prices. In the front of the ROOSEVELT FIELD HOTEL also had a buffet from which a steward ship was a compartment for baggage and A . R. C. KURTZ, Prop. served tea and other light refreshments. in the rear another one for heavy bag­ The saloon was quite long and the seats gage. Provision was made somewhere • were roomy, with plenty of space in be­ for carrying pet dogs at freight rates. tween. As the routes of Imperial Airways Offer modern accomodations A large washroom with hot and cold spread towards Australia and South with air minded surroundings water was at the back of the saloon, and Africa, similar aircraft were placed in including restaurant and behind that was the most important in­ operation across the Mediterranean and "Toast to Progress" Bar novation— a very large baggage com­ to India and Central Africa. Here again partment for heavy luggage, for what the traffic consisted of whole families woman would be going to Paris unless going to and fro from England to all she brought back clothes—large quan­ parts of the Empire, and in some cases Sales and Service tities of clothes in big trunks. As soon the front cabin was converted into a BENDIX - ECLIPSE - PIONEER - SC IN TILLA as it became known that spacious room nursery. STROMBERG was supplied for baggage, a large in­ The Vicereine of India has travelled crease was noted in feminine passengers. many times to London by air, and the As all operators know, airplanes are picturesquely garbed Indian Maharanee Standard Aircraft expensive things. Imperial Airways is a common sight on this route. The carried on with the Argosy type for some Queen of the Belgians has flown to the Equipment Co. years until they had more than earned Congo, the Duchess of Kent from Lon­ their cost and keep. It was essential that don to Paris. Old Ladies of over • new equipment should be constructed eighty years have crossed Africa from Hangar "E" - Roosevelt Field and in 1931 the Handley-Page Hannibal Cairo to Cape Town, and tiny girls in and Heracles type went into service. arms have been flown from Bagdad Garden City, L. I., N. Y. These new machines were very much across Europe. GArden City 8753 GARDEN NAVIGATION (Continued rom Page 3) that wherever the Standard Oil Co. has than 180 degrees, add 180; if more than FAIRCHILD a bulk plant (the tanks and buildings are 180 degrees, substract 180; e. g. course, painted a grey-white), S. O. will be 76 degrees, opposite, 256; course 220 painted on the north side of the roof degrees, opposite 40. And then there is AIRPLANES and the name of the town on the south; that ogre of the northerly turning error. Shell Oil buildings are painted yellow, But after all, Spring is here! yes, ♦ but do not have the name of the town. really, though it’s snowing in Michigan. And in compass calculations, those wavy Give us our goggles and a map and let’s red lines do really mean something! A go some place! Navigation? "Nothing Hangar C, Roosevelt Field correction of 11 degrees in a flight from to it”— as my first instructor said when Detroit to New York is worth noting. I timidly inquired where I should take Mineola, L. I., N. Y. And have you ever had to reverse your a course. "Just point your nose in the Telephone, Garden City 10395 course exactly, and quickly? What right direction and keep the engine go­ would the compass reading be? If less ing.” 7 COME ON IN! three organizations or to authorized rep­ resentatives. In other words on 50 sub­ Air Associates, Inc. "I’ve been an interested reader of your scriptions the commission deductible will magazine since April, 1933, when my be $25.00. Manufacture™ and Ditdributors mother gave me a subscription for a birth­ However, each subscription must show Aviation Accessories, Supplies, day present . . . I ivant to give three the date of sale, and no more than two cheers for it and say that the only ob­ weeks will be allowed to elapse between Equipment jection I can find is that it doesn’t last the sale of the 1st and the 25th subscrip­ tion in one lot. This is to avoid having long enough!” Signed: Agnes English Everything for the Private Flier Torrence. subscriptions held up and depriving sub­ scribers of their copies until 25 accum­ ETTERS like that make us stop and ulate. GARDEN CITY, N. Y. • CHICAGO, ILL realize that the time has come for j On Roosevelt Field On Municipal Airport all good A IRW O M A N rooters— mean­ L GLENDALE, CAL. ing the 99ers, W.N.A.A. members, MICHIGAN'S F. E. R. A. On Grand Central Airport Cloud Clubbers and other readers— to sit in with us— the editors— and see how we GROUND SCHOOLS can make the magazine not only "last By ALICE C. HIRSCHMAN longer” by putting in more pages per SACRIFICE SALE month, but how we can make it last for­ Col. Floyd E. Evans, Director, Michig­ Certified Licensed Used Airplanes ever, by building up its circulation and an State Board of Aeronautics, has again All Ships licensed. Excellent condition. Trade or terms to responsible parties. consequently the amount of its advertis­ shown his progressiveness and perspica­ ing space to a point where the cost of city, in establishing a series of Aviation editing and publishing is permanently WACO underwritten. Ground Schools throughout Michigan, SALES Which brings us to the delectable with the aid of F. E. R. A. funds for OF NEW YORK. INC. news that Susanne MacPherson, a 99 education in Michigan. WACO—“F2’\ Jacobs 170 h. p.— 10ft hra. Just member, has sold 51 subscriptions dur­ At present there are twelve of these recovered. Motor just majored. Red fuselage, ing the last few weeks! silver wings, duals, air starter. Many extras. schools in operation in the major cities Equal to new. Contest Announcement WACO— 1933 Cabin, Com. 210 h.p.— 146 hra. of the state, four of which are in Detroit. Kensington Gray fuselage. Ship like new It can be done on a quantity basis, you and in excellent condition throughout. Wired It is planned to bring the total number see. And this fine record has inspired for landing lights. Radio, parachute seats. up to about thirty. All work is under WACO— 1933 Cabin. Cont. 210 h.p.—200 hrs. us to make plans for a subscription con­ Excellent condition. Motor just overhauled. Many extras, wheel pants, instruments, air test, beginning April 15 (that is, right the supervision of the Michigan State starter. Gray fuselage, silver wings. this minute) and closing July 15. Board of Aeronautics, and the instructors WACO— 1933 Cabin, Cont. 210 h.p.—245 hrs. Kensington Gray, Silver wings. Very good A parachute lamp will go to the in­ are all either regular instructors in condition. Wired for landing lights and dividual who sells the most subscriptions. flares. No time since top. aeronautics from the schools and colleges, WACO— 1933 Cabin, Cont. 210 h.p.— 260 hrs. There will be a second and a third prize Deluxe equipment, special paint, radio, sensi­ or pilots qualified to teach, who are tive altimeter, turn and bank, rate of climb, also. Every reader, club member or no, air brakes, extra gas. Entire ship stream­ is eligible to enter the contest. otherwise unemployed. The average lined. Complete night flying equipment. Ex­ cellent condition. Last year on the old 99er, Margaret classes have a hundred students, over TRAVKLAIR Speodwing—Wright J6-7, 240 Cooper, national 99 president, donated a h.p.—315 hrs. Black fuselage, orange wings, 20 % ot whom are women. steel prop., wheel pants, front cockpit cowl. trophy for the 99 Club section which sold The work covers complete study of Entire ship streamlined. Many extras. Ex­ ceptionally fast. No time since' engine ma­ the most subscriptions. The New York- aircraft, aviation engines, aerodynamics, jored. Hand inertia starter and booster. New Jersey section won it. This year and state and federal air traffic rules and Many others, including Taylor Cub:, Birds, Dolly Bernson, governor of the New regulations. Written examinations are Cessna, Travelair, Loclcheeds, Monocoupe, England section, is donating a cup for given at regular intervals, and a cer­ Privateers, etc. the 99 section which sells the most. Per­ tificate is to be issued at the completion haps there will be a W .N .A .A . chapter Write or Wire for Prices of the course. Those receiving certifi­ Hangar 16, Roosevelt Field, Mineola, N. Y. trophy also. This thing got under way cates will be qualified to go on with the N. Y. Phone, Vigilant 4-5317 before we had a chance to get organized courses in meteorology and navigation, Field, Garden City 5313 on all the details. which are planned for next year. MARK ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS: These schools are free to the public, Count on Contest. the only cost being the text books, which Revenue are sold to the students at cost, and this Safair Flying School amounts to only $5.25 for the complete A commission of 25 cents is now de­ is pleased to announce a reduction of 10% ductible on each dollar subscription bv course. in fees for all Flying Courses. Approved by any member of the three club groups or W ith the twelve hundred students now U. S. Government for all grades of pilots’ by an authorized subscription represen­ enrolled in these fine schools, and those licenses—instructors with 14 years exper­ ience— Ground School at New York tative. Selling subscriptions— if sold in to be enrolled in the school now in for­ mation, it is felt that a fine nucleus of University quantity-—is a practical means of raising Special Courses in Instrument, Radio and club treasury revenue, even for buying flyers is being built up in Michigan. It Night Flying. is interesting to note that in one of the individual flying time or saving up to DETAILS ON REQUEST buy a ship. schools in Detroit, the instructor explain­ ed the large expense involved in flying SAFAIR FLYING SCHOOL ORE especially is this true since we to the class, and then inquired how many H angar B - Roosevelt Field - M ineola, L. I. Tel. Garden City 960 have decided to offer a commis­ planned definitely to take up flying. sion of 50 cents on subscriptions in lotsFifty percent of the class stated that they N. Y. Office— 29 West 57th Street M Tel. PLaza 3-4446 of 25 or more to members of any of the so intended. A E R I A L PHOTO G R

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International News Photo • VACATION FLIGHT—Six students of Gunston Hall, Washington, D. C., off for Miami where they were house • You should have been with us when the secret leaked out guests of Frances Schoolfield. (See Cloud Club fcr further that Fay and Lint were married. More tun! More flowers details.) and so on. N. B.—The gorgeous box from Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt. • We believe you are entitled to a looksee at the bride (Fay Gillis, AIRWOMAN co-pilot) and the groom Linton • Not only was this safe home of William and Melba Beard in Altadena, Calif., conceived while Wells (well-known writer, who also flys, having soloed in flying over buildings wrecked by earthquake and floods, but Melba herself chose a site for it 1915). after an extensive aerial survey during which she was both pilot and observer— of markets, schools, and transit lines. • The earthquake, flood, wind, fire and termite proof home consists of cellular steel sections, • The flying couple—Mr. and Mrs. Wil'iam sprayed with aluminum. The interior and furniture are also of metal, while room-height windows Beard, who are responsible for the prize- and doors give it an "airy" feeling. winning house to the right of them. Wide World Photo • Richard J. Neutra, the architect, has just advised the Beards that the structure has received the Gold Medal in the Better Homes in America Competition. 9 LINES IN THE SKY By PAT O'MALLEY

Second Call Africa, for a baby before it was born. The baby was a girl and she flew to MAGAZINES Last month we issued a request for Alexandria in the space, as reserved, By MABEL BRITTON airline passenger mileage statistics. So far when she was two and half months old. Mrs. James R. Leisk of South Africa with Ladybird by W . B. Courtney, Colliers’, her 250,000 miles still stands head and Juneau to Nome March 30, 1935. This week’s Colliers’ devotes three shoulders above anything yet reported. On April 2nd, Pacific Alaskan Air­ pages to a fine story about Helen Richey Still Ethel Ely Pattison, of New York, ways a subsidiary of Pan American Air­ and her achievements. Straightforward with over 100,000 is coming right along. ways, crashed America’s "last frontier,” and simple, as she is herself, the story From another New Yorker, Harriet G. the Arctic Circle at the top of the world. swings along with real dramatic interest. Hobbs, we have: On that date they instituted a service— One misses the twinkle in Helen's eye "As a subscriber to AIRWOMAN 1 using Lockheed twin-engined Electros— which accompanies her own telling of noticed the question, 'Who's the cham­ which spans Alaska from Juneau to some of these anecdotes!— but those who pion airline passenger?' Nome, on the Bering Sea, in seven-hour know her and those who don’t must all flying schedules, replacing 34 days of "Probably my few miles mean nothing admire her and agree with the author, surface travel and providing a four and to many air travelers, but anyway I have who cites her appointment as co-pilot on one-half day service to New York. flown 30,000 miles in the past four years Central Airlines as the biggest achieve­ on T.W .A ., United and Eastern Airlines.” VER the historic dog sled trails, ment yet for women in aviation. Bravo Several passengers report they have Helen, and good luck! which for generations have repre­ O Wings Without Halos by Swanee Taylor sented the only means of reaching interior Saturday Evening Post, March 30, Alaska, over the heroic path to the Klon­ 1935. dike, the Yukon and the Kuskokwim, This is a fine, common-sense article airliners will accomplish in a single about the simplicity and delight of flying hour’s flight what has heretofore required and of learning to fly. Sound informa­ a full week of difficult travel by dog tion and interesting examples abound. team or slow river boat. Through con­ The novice must find it hard to resist the necting service arranged with the do­ allure of such a winsomely simple expo­ mestic airlines in the United States and sition. I hope Mr. Taylor will permit with the Alaska Steamship company, me to quote what was news to me and of operating from Seattle, the first through great interest, — "There is only one liv­ plane-steamer-plane service to the far ing creature that is a born flier. Every­ north went into effect on April 2nd, thing else— the birds, the bees’n every­ simultaneously with the new Alaskan thing— must take flight instruction. And schedules. the one so richly blessed is the Australian They will reduce the travel time to brush turkey, a curious little fellow who Fairbanks, the commercial capital, and pops out of his shell, fully feathered, all other important inland cities in Alaska, set and ready to give her the gun.” from weeks to days. • Quite a Lot of Gas Elly Beinhorn’s book, Flying Girl,, just Mrs. Josephine Roche, Assistant Secretary of Committments for the purchase of out, will be reviewed next month. the Treasury, and confirmed air traveler, buys 4,300,000 gallons of aviation gasoline, a ticket for a Denver to Washington trip via A List of 99 Club Sectional Governors which is the highest grade motor fuel ob­ United plane. tainable, have been signed by officials of New England—Dolly Bernson, 140 American Airlines with Shell Petroleum, Sewell Ave., Brookline, Mass. done considerable passenger flying but Standard Oil of Ohio and the Pasotex New York-New Jersey— Marjorie Lud- have not kept track of mileages. So we’re Petroleum of Texas. Others to be signed wipsen. 4 Irving Place. New York Citv. asking you again to try and figure up, will bring the total for the year to Middle Eastern— Genevieve Savage, even approximately how much distance approximately 7,000,000 gallons. This Quarters No. 4, Bolling Field, Washing­ you have covered. And if the total comes is in addition to 125,000 gallons of avia­ ton. D. C. to less than 10,000 miles, please send it tion lubrication oil. North Central— Alice Hirschman, 861 in anyway. Edgemont Park, Grosse Pointe Park. During how many years the flying was Spinsterly Candor Michigan. done and over what lines, as included by The following was reported as a Southwestern—Clema Granger, 1617 Miss Hobbs, would also be helpful. word-for-word conversation by airline Welleslev Drive, Santa Monica, Calif. pilot Hy Sheridan with a prim, shy look­ • Northwestern—Cora Sterling. 2012 ing woman passenger. 43rd St., North, Seattle, Washington., Incidentally we understand that close "D o you enjoy air travel ?’’ acting governor. (Election pending). to 40 per cent of Eastern Airlines’ pas­ ”1 love it,” she answered. Southeastern—Mary Nicholson, c/o sengers on the New York-Washington- "Is it the speed, the cleanness, the Sternberger Children’s Hospital, Greens­ Miami route are women. smoothness or what that attracts you?” boro, N. C. Further, passage was booked on Im ­ "Oh,” she said, ”1 like the friendliness. South Central—Dorothy McBirney. perial Airways in Cape Town South It’s the only place men ever talk to me.’' 1414 S. Galveston, Tulsa, Okla. 10 AIR MASS METEOROLOGY By PHILIP DEL VECCHIO

I have often wondered ther science of the past century, there are this type of forecasting and since early just how much success still many bugs and kinks which will 1934 the Weather Bureau has been de­ can be traced to a have to be taken out before our mete­ veloping it for their own work. Three mouth-filling name such orologists can mark their forecasts 100% major airlines are using it continuously as Air Mass Analysis day in and day out. It is not a magi­ in their daily short and long range fore­ when it is applied to a cian’s wand by which all the weather casts. new and pioneering sub­ map's bugaboos are frightened away. It Let us begin very simply, for there is ject. Make no mistake however. Air is something which, if handled with care a great deal to air mass meteorology and Mass Analysis is here to stay— high and patience, will some day bring me­ we must take a little chunk at a time. sounding name or no. As Amelia Ear­ teorology within range of the mathe­ The old system was to note the areas of hart said, it is already proving its worth matical exactitude of science such as low and high barometric pressure on the by increasing the accuracy of both short astronomy and chemistry. current map, compare their positions with that of the previous day and estimate the probable movement for the following twenty-four hours. These high and low pressure areas were supposed to bring with them the areas of foul and fair weather. Many a meteorologist has banged his head on the map table when the sequence of weather events did not transpire as he had forecast, and no wonder. It will eventually sink into the addled pates of the remaining old school weathermen that lows and high are ef­ fects— not causes. An air mass is usually defined as a considerable portion of the atmosphere "homogeneous in horizontal extent.” Be­ tween you and me this means that a great gob of air has stagnated over one por­ tion of the earth’s surface so long that it has acquired the characteristics of that region. For instance, one air mass, which is the principal weather-breeder of the United States, is called Polar Continental — very aptly. This type of air mass Boeing Transport, 1933—An etching by John S. Hammond, former aviation editor forms by lying over the cold wastes of of the Detroit Times, now a free lance writer on the West Coast. the Arctic, Alaska and Canada. Its unvarying characteristics are extremely and long range forecasts. But then let U T let us proceed. W e must know low surface temperatures and extreme me tell you a story of what happened to B something of this new phase of dryness. me when I was a little boy. weather forecasting if we are to be able HE next in importance is Tropical I had seen an advertisement of a re­ to keep the respect of our airport me­ Gulf, and is formed by passing over markable telegraph set which could be teorologists. It has not always been T the heated waters of the Gulf of Mexico. heard for hundreds of yards, the mag­ known as air mass analysis. The Its features are high surface temperatures Bjerknes family in Norway made the azine said; and which sold for the ridic­ and great humidity. first practical advances along these lines The cold polar masses usually move ulous price of ten cents. Truly, this was and it was called, for some time, Polar south and southeastward— the warm a bargain. So I saved the necessary Front Forecasting. In our United States tropical air north and northeastward. pennies and one day the postman brought the most rapid advances have been made me a tiny box. I opened it feverishly— at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ Should these two meet several things but lo ! and behold! instead of the com­ nology under the direction of Dr. C. G. happen. For one thing, the meeting line plicated contraption I had hoped to find Rossby and that wizard of analysis, Dr. o f the two dissimilar masses is called a out came a piece of spring steel stuck in­ H. C. W illett. Both these men received "Front.” If the cold air is advancing, to a sliver of wood. W hen you pushed the newly created Reed Award for new driving the warm air in front of it, the the steel down it went, "C lick” and developments in aeronautics not so long front is a Polar Front— if the warm air when you let it up it went, "Clack.” I ago. The California Institute of Tech­ advances, it is a Warm or Equatorial am still wary of too much enthusiasm. nology has also been prominent, espe­ Front. W hat happens at these fronts is So, then, I will let you girls in on a cially in West Coast weather forecasting. of supreme importantce in forecasting little secret. Although air mass mete­ Our own Army and Navy have been the weather. W e shall take it up in later orology is the greatest advance of wea- working on the problems concerned with articles. Photos, Courtesy of McLaughlin Aerial Surveys

Contact . . . Contact . . . ! T A whir of motors . . . and off we are! Skimming the sod; we cannot tell H Just when we left the earth and when we start flying. E W e’re o ff for the ceiling over our head. B The town is below us, y the houses, the parks and the steeples. At once we know how towns are built F and streets laid out! W e’d never SEEN it before! R W e’re over the countryside, I the woods and the hills, P E roads, rivers, lakes and farms! D Tilled soil, like a huge checkerboard E in solid squares, quite neat A of various shades of green. R And also squares of brown W. of freshly turned-up soil. S We grasp the meaning now of forty . . . eighty acres . . . P v Of farms . . . of ranches . . . E a W e trace out railroads, highways, n irrigation systems. C Motor vehicles we see at first, they look on roads T E like bugs on ribbons! I M W e don’t see people after we’ve gone up, D for people are too small and insignificant. V But from the air we understand E their works and labors. E N A new respect is born in us, A pride in what the human race made of the surface of their earth! AIR WISE ALASKA POT AND PAN MECHANICS By W IL L IA M LAVERY (Continued from last month) Returning the speculative stare of a And in the event you had thought of Aviation began to look good to a beer only as a beverage, not as a cooking number of the local business men, among menu card . . . Spanish Omelet? No . . . staple, here are a couple of other recipes them my Father, so you can see I inher­ Crepes Suzette? No, not today . . . Welsh in which beer is a major ingredient. Beer ited my love of aviation honestly. They Rarebit. Well, perhaps . . . we’re in­ Soup a la Creme is recommended as a organized the Fairbanks Aeroplane Cor­ terested, but skeptical. tonic ,and the sausage idea is grand for poration, and Jimmy Rodebaugh went in So would you be if you had been disil­ midnight or Sunday night suppers. with them. After a short time they decided they needed bigger and better planes so they sent Noel to New York, where he purchased a Fokker. This plane is well worth describing, as it was one of, if not the first cabin plane in the States. It was a high-wing mono­ plane, the wing being full cantilever and of plywood construction. The stage is all set fcr The fares they charged at this time are the curtain to go up well worth mentioning. From Fairbanks on a performance of to Nome, a distance of 500 miles, one Welsh Rarebit at its passenger had to shell out $1,000, two best. went for the trifling sum of $750 each. To the rest of the nearby communities it was only $1.00 a mile. The company hired A. A. Bennett as pilot and then, a little later, Joe Crosson. Courtesy, Schaefer During the winter A. A. and Joe built Brewing Company. over an old Standard. They enlarged lusioned on tearoomy Welsh Rarebits, Old-fashioned Rarebit the front cockpit so it would hold four I pound American cheese passengers and made a cabin over it. time and again, been told there were 1 tablespoon butter This was a bit unhandy for the pas­ really made with beer and recognized 2 teaspoons salt sengers, because they had to wait until 2 teaspoons dry mustard from the first whiff that flour and milk 1 teaspoon paprika the pilot unlocked the door before they were omnipresent therein. 1 / 2 bottle beer could get out. It wasn’t long before the It is the same iniquitous idea as clam Flake cheese. Melt butter, stir in seasoning, directors had a Swallow with a Hisso add cheese and cook over a low fire until added to their fleet. Then came Old chowder in which you can’t detect even melted. Stir in the beer gradually and cook Man Trouble. They lost the Standard so much as the monogram of the clam until mixture is smooth. Pour at once over hot toast or crackers and serve immediately, and the Swallow. However, they weren’t family, or ice cream which has the con­ bubbling hot. discouraged, for they purchased another sistency of warm stew. Beer Soup a la Creme Swallow, which was the first ship to For it almost follows as the night the 1 quart beer make a commercial flight to Point Bar­ 1 quart water row—quite a feat for a water-cooled job day that if it’s made with beer— full- 1 tbsp. flour or cornstarch in the middle of an Arctic winter. flavored, fresh beer, then it’s good Welsh Sugar to taste 1 lemon peel About this time Bennett and Rode­ Rarebit. But not always. Proportions 1 stick cinnamon baugh went in for themselves and and method also count. 4 eggs brought in three O .X . Wacos and, up Mix and place in a saucepan over the fire, Meantime, across the table from m e—■ until the time that Alaskan Airways, a beating constantly with egg beater until it subsidiary of American Airways, bought in my whether-to-order-or-not-to-order- comes to a boil. Remove from fire and pour into tureen, lined with toast squares. them out, they did very well, adding rarebit quandary— sits Annette Gipson, another Swallow and a Zenith to their pilot and sponsor of an annual all Frying Sausage Boiled in Beer outfit. Pour white or brown beer (not bitter beer) woman’s air race. into a sauce pan, add onions, whole spices, In the meantime, Noel W ien had been "W ould you like a good receipe for bay leaves, 1 or 2 carrots and boil until car­ to the States, and returned with a Hamil­ rots are soft. Melt lump of butter in a frying ton and organized W ien Airways of Welsh Rarebit?” says she. W e would, pan, dust sausage with flour and fry to a nice Alaska. He also had a Stinson Detroiter and having found it most excellent are golden brown. Strain liquid, and pour slowly over sausage. Add a few drops of beef ex­ that he purchased from Sir Hubert W il­ passing it along. tract to taste. kins, who had left it here after his second North Pole hop. The Alaskan ( Airways bought out W ien also and con­ verted his hangar into their main shop. a number of Fairchilds and did a lot of of the ships are Stinsons and Bellanca’s. At this time Colonel Ben Eilson was flying, packing the mail. In 1932, Pan There are also three privately owned representing Alaskan Airways and, until American Airways took over Alaskan planes. he and his mechanic, Earl Borland, Airways and Pacific Alaska Airways and All of which makes our batting crashed in the Hamilton, continued in merged them under the name of Pacific average pretty fair, seeing as how there the position of chief pilot and manager. Alaska Airways. are only between twenty and twenty-five A year or so later, in 1930, Joe Bar­ There are six independent com­ hundred people, dogs and horses in­ rows came up here and started the Pacific panies doing business here, all of which cluded in this—the "Golden Heart of Alaska Airways. His outfit shipped in have at least two planes. The majority Alaska.” 13 FASHIONS IN FLIGHT By FAY GILLIS

Thirty-five pounds of luggage per pas­ You people out in the hinterland are smart! And it weighs just a pound. With senger is the rule on airlines. probably sniffing skeptically at this point, it is worn a large black, 10-ounce paper That may not sound like much to the so I had better show you, because other­ panama straw hat, a 12-ounce black crepe traveller who tours only in terms of wise you won’t believe it and all this will bag, 16-ounce sandals, and 3-ounce black trunks, but it means actually ten complete have been in vain— which is what none mesh gloves— all of which may serve as costumes by Sally Milgrim, not to men­ of us want our work to be. the accessories for another short-sleeved tion such frivolous accessories as an Let’s consider a four-day flying trip to afternoon frock—a small flower-print of ermine jacket, a complete beauty kit— Florida. Miss Milgrim suggests a four- even the bag to carry them in is in­ piece ensemble to be worn on the airlin­ deep, dusty pink and chartreuse against a cluded. er. The suit has a straight, navy woo! black background. A large chartreuse The problem of limited luggage on skirt. The long-sleeved, navy silk blouse velvet bow at the neckline is the only the airlines has been one of the major is closed at the neck with an ascot tie, trimming, and the dress weighs just flying drawbacks to the well-dressed monogramed in red which matches the 8 ounces. women who feel that the mere sound of red chenille stitching on the jacket. It is • 35 pounds cramps their ability to be topped by a pert, blue-wool mandarine soigne on all occasions. However, Sally toque, trimmed with the red chenille For cocktails and dancing, what could Milgrim, dictator of fashion, and a fly­ stitching. An unlined, novelty crepe, be smarter than the costume worn by ing enthusiast herself, has solved the pro­ swagger coat of navy blue, which may be Sally Milgrim in the illustration? It has blems of the smart flying fraternity. worn with separate dresses completes the a long black crepe skirt topped by a heavy ensemble. Accessories suggested are white ribbed silk halter, over which is navy blue gloves, quilted kid bag and a Sally Milgrim, our flying des’gner, wearing one worn a very tailored mess jacket with jet two-eyelet tie of navy kid. This outfit of her creations which can be either very cuff-links. It weighs a pound and a half casual, or without the jacket, very formal. is not included in the 35-pound rule, and with it is carried either the black Photo by Ray Lee Jackson NBC Studio because you are wearing it, which may crepe bag mentioned above or a white give some of you who specialize in brocaded evening bag with a seed pearl breaking regulations an idea. clasp weighing exactly 12 ounces. The Suppose you leave New York on the necessary white gloves weigh a mere 5 night plane scheduled to arrive in Miami ounces The black crepe slippers worn in the morning. Ergo! You can dash with the print dress can do double duty right dowm to the beach or to the yacht and add pediatric attraction to this outfit. — and in what a costume! If you are inclined to be sophisticated, Slacks of a durable blue sdk material, wear the svelte white floral Jottcel print similar to poplin, with a very trim mess with clusters of violets scattered here and jacket boasting two jaunty pockets are in there. A bunch of violets just must order. Worn with a halter of vermilion nestle in the V-shaped neck. W ith a silk jersey, and white beach shoes, the long white slip it weighs 28 ounces. A costume w'eights 24 ounces and the shoes one-pound pair of navy blue sandals and 16. The halter can be interchanged with a one-piece, 12-ounce white, halter-neck the white brocaded evening bag with bathing suit of ribbed material. long white gloves complete the ensemble. However, if you are among strangers However, if you feel demure, and between us girls, just a bit devilish, the and don’t feel so informal to begin with, wear the two-piece nautical outfit in gown to wear is a navy blue cire lace affair worn over a navy satin slip. The periwinkle blue and white. The short- sleeved dress is made of w'hite Juno crepe, cobweb lace jabot at the neck is held by with the squared effect on the shoulders a red and rhinestone clip which matches outlined in blue, wh'ch matches the blue the two clips on the belt. The dress is buckle on the belt. The double-breasted, fitted to the knees and then flares out in blue jacket is fastened with white buttons. a double flounce to the instep. Twelve This ensemble weighs 12 ounces and is ounces of feminine adornment, and too, worn with a 2-ounce blue felt hat, 16- too de-vine! That’s the phrase of the ounce white kid shoes, 1 pound white moment, isn’t it? The blue taffeta kid bag, and white kid gloves that tip evening bag tips the scales at 8 ounces, the scales at 4 ounces. So far this seems the blue taffeta gloves with the Iastex to be an argument in favor of matricula''- palms are 5 ounces, and the blue satin ing in mathematics! sandals have already been on the scales. Costume No. 4 is a dress suit of mat- If there is a breeze blowing you can lasse crepe. The simple, princess dress slip into an ermine evening jacket which has shoulder sleeves and a star-sapphire weighs a mere 19 ounces. clasp at the V-shaped neck. The elbow- For night time— a three-piece, vermil­ length sleeves of the jacket, which ties ion, pebble crepe ensemble. The top of in front, are banded with summer fox, the pajamas has a Peter Pan collar with dyed to match the suit. Simple but is it (Turn to Page 16) 14

New England award, made the presentation to Mrs. Richey informally at luncheon in the Pine Susanne MacPherson, of Newton, Savage, who is governor of the 99ers for Room at Hudson’s. Mass., recently sold 51 subscriptions to the Middle Eastern Section. New York-New Jersey AIRW O M AN , which is a record to date for one individual. Susanne came in Nor+h Central W e all heaved a sigh of relief on the last December as a Junior member, but Ohio Chapter-. The Ohio Chapter met fifteenth of March when the money was recently got her pilot’s license and be­ Saturday afternoon, March 27, at the counted and we found we had earned came a full-fledged 99. Daisy Kirkpat­ Statler Hotel in Cleveland, to discuss enough to buy an airplane— which has rick, of Swampscott, Mass., has sold the plans for future meetings. Mary Win- been our dream for years. The winner 6 subscriptions pre-requisite to Junior stanley, Abbie Dill; Leora Stroup, Ann of our "Benefit Selling” was none other membership in the New England section. Barille, Alma Arlene Davis, and Clara that Captain Edwin C. Musick, chief Evidently the other 7 sections will have McCormick were there, and Alice Hirsch- pilot of Pan American Airlines, who flies to look for some sturdy Down-East com­ man came over from Detroit for the great big airplanes all day long, so he petition on the cup which Dolly Bernson meeting. wasn’t interested in our small edition and took the money instead. Jimmy Durante of Brookline, Mass., is donating to the Michigan Chapter-. The Michigan officiated at the drawing, which was pre­ 99 section which sells the most subscrip­ Chapter met for luncheon at Helen ceded by a fashion show— ably described tions between April 15 and July 15. In­ Lehtio’s on Saturday, March 9. The by our Mister Swanee Taylor in his dividual prizes are also being offered. Chapter was glad to welcome back into column. W e have the money for the Details of the AIRWOMAN subscription its fold Laura May Brunton, who has Taylor Cub, but alack and alas there is contest appear on another page of this just returned from a winter in Montana. more to flying than just an airplane— in­ issue. She regaled us with tales of the peculiar­ surance, maintenance, gas, oil— to men­ Middle Eastern ities of flying in the hills of her home tion a few of the responsibilities— so On March 9 the Washington Air Der­ state, as well as with the adventures she now we are dashing around looking for by Association held its annual award ban­ and her husband had on their trip out in inspirations to raise some more money. quet at the Congressional Country Club. their W aco A, and their hop back to Ann Each year the Association selects the one Arbor in their new Lambert Monocoupe person in the District or within thirty which they picked up in St. Louis. Leah miles of the District of Columbia who Zeigler, a former 99er from the South­ has done the most to advance, promote eastern Section, who has temporarily or further interest in aviation for the given up active flying to study Aero­ District and adjoining area during the nautical Engineering at the University of past. Michigan in Ann Arbor, was a guest at The recipient of the award for 1934 is the luncheon. She gave an interesting Genevieve Savage, who will hold the sil­ account of her studies at the university, ver and marble trophy for one year. Har­ and the activities of the 99s in the Car- rison Somerville, president of the Wash­ olinas. ington Air Derby Association, and Mr. On Wednesday, March 13, the C. H. Warrington, previous holder of the Michigan Chapter entertained 99er Helen Copyright by Photo, courtesy Washington Star H. A. Schoenhals "Chet" Warrington, (left) 1933 recipient, awards D. C. trophy to Genevieve Savage as Harrison Somerville, president of the Washing­ ton Air Derby Association looks on.

W e think we have been inspired but we won’t disclose the secret until next month when we hope we can announce the fact that our ship is "on the line.” National Officers Margaret Cooper, president, Box 441, Syosset, L. I., N. Y. Gladys O’Donnell, vice president, 3723 The New York-New California Avenue, Long Beach, Calif. Jersey section turns Mabel Britton, secretary, 408 Forest out to pose for the Avenue, Ypsilanti, Mich. cameras w ith a Tay­ Marjorie Ludwigsen, treasurer, 4 Irv­ lor Cub in the lobby ing Place, New York City. of the Hotel New (The list of 99 Sectional Governors Yorker. is on page 12.) 15

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O National Air Mail Campaign is in and praise from groups of local organiza­ the wind this year due to the lack of tions, newspapers, and civic institutions. a sufficient number of Units offering The to regular monthly meetings are held N each fourth Wednesday at Lowry Field, participate. Those Units who wrote to Headquarters signifying their intention to the Government flying field, occupied b/ take part, were encouraged to do so as a the 120th Observation Squadron of Co­ local project. Next year it is hoped that lorado. Lowry Field was named after a r ~ - ~ n National Air Mail Week may mean a young officer, Francis Lowry, the first flyer from the Colorado Unit to lose his 'sr+ws % jV iV sweeping and enthusiastic campaign ot cooperation by the W.N.A.A. Units. To life during the war. His Mother is one HWLOKS fRtf I the Units who wrote in asking^for sug­ of our oldest and most honored members. AIR HAIL WEEK) gestions as to campaign ways and means, In commemoration of his bravery, a statue was cast of bro.ize, an almost life- APRIL 23-29 * an outline was forwarded. The ma­ s p o n : size replica, and placed in a niche just LT LA Kb UNIT jority of these your Secretary declares HENS N V . \ without blushes were plagiarized, from above the fireplace in the spacious club AERONAUTICAL A ssN the Denver and Salt Lake City Units’ rooms of the field. CASH AND FREf '=S The meetings are presided over by our BY PLAN' \ splendid campaign reports for 1933, for GIVEN« MNMK *l£TT[,' - ■ >■ which they received the W .N .A .A . Air President, Mrs. Carlos L. Reavis, to whom K'CWUA'lON HU Mail Trophies. we owe much of our success as an or­ ganization. Annual Meeting One of the cleverest stunts used by Please remember the Annual Meeting, the group was the introducing of a new May 17-18, and send representatives to song written by a Denver girl and dedi­ Dayton from each Unit. And as many cated to the W om en’s Aeronautical Asso­ as can, come yourselves. Many impor­ ciation of Denver called "Flying High.” tant organization policies are to be dis­ The manager of our large Orpheum cussed and new officers to be elected and theater saw the possibilities and arranged installed. There will be entertainment a suitable program and stage show where­ provided and in Dayton there are inter­ by this song could be used. So each day esting things to see. Not the least of for a week, playing three shows a day these is the home of the great inventor of and four on Saturday and Sunday, our the airplane, Orville Wright, and Wright members garbed in flying attire sang the Field, the Government’s huge aeronautic­ new song. Mrs. Franklin Nelson, al experimental station and flying field. The Denver Unit has adopted a dress director of the Salt Remember the dates May 17th and 18th. Lake City Unit, hold­ uniform for use at official occasions. The Arrange for sending representatives at color is deep blue. It is a two-piece suit, ing one of the pos­ your next meeting. ters used by that with double-breasted coat, buttoned with unit in their 1933 Featuring the Denver Unit red buttons. A blue overseas cap, white air mail week cam­ The Denver Unit has always been a shirt and red tie complete the ensemble. paign. highly active group of aviation enthu­ Mrs. L a r r y N e f f siasts, winning a great deal of publicity Publicity Chairman, Denver Unit.

THE DENVER UNIT OF THE WOMEN'S NATIONAL AERONAUTICAL ASSOCIATION IN UNIFORM 16 OUR TURFING EXPERT

Mrs. Ethel have rocked me into a sense of security If two and two make four and there Ely Pattison from which nothing could lure me." are sixteen ounces in a pound— the Her most interesting aerial jaunt was answer should be 35 pounds and 4 ounces on this side of the Big Pond. . . . You can check off the extra four Gather round girls, I have some in­ "I left New York on Friday morning, ounces with a great big smile at the bag­ teresting facts to tell you about two managed to have conferences en route at gage man. favorite flying fields—Roosevelt—and airports with several of my clients, arrived And so my dear readers, let’s have no New York’s flying claim to fame— Floyd in California Friday night. With the as­ more disdainful remarks about the lug­ Bennett They were both turfed by a sistance of Mr. Douglas I got an air­ gage problems on an airliner. Sally Mil- woman. plane, did my California stint, left there grim has completely dispelled the theory Our grass expert is none other than Saturday night and arrived in New York that travelling "light” means an extra Sunday night in time for a late supper. pair of stockings and your toothbrush. Mrs. Ethel Ely Pattison, president of the B. A.— before aviation— the trip would International Seed Service, Inc., 11 Park have taken three weeks and cost at least • Place, who are specialists in turfing air­ twice as much— and besides, would have Get Organized to Win the Big Contest ports. Just ask her— she knows the dif­ been dirty and generally disagreeable.” Every W.N.A.A. chapter or 99 section ference between blue and green grass— is urged to appoint a subscription chair­ and it isn't all color. If you want to see FASHIONS IN FLIGHT man instantly and draw up plans for a a beautiful airport, fly over Mitchell (Continued from Page 13) campaign — naming teams, planning Field, the Army’s eastern headquarters, tours, drives and what not. W rite and a pert bow and closes down the front or circle the Pratt and Whitney port at tell us how you are progressing so we can with round glass buttons. The pajamas East Hartford— both of which were report on your drive in the May issue. fit snuggly at the waist line with a grassed according to Mrs. Pattison’s in­ Supplies of subscription blanks will be trick fastening of glass buttons. The sent on request— although, the name, the structions. belted robe is also fastened with a single address and the dollar are all that’s ab­ But she doesn’t spend all her time on row of the buttons. This ensemble solutely essential. Let us hear from you the ground growing grass. Mrs. Patti­ weighs 32 ounces and is the heaviest out­ son has over 100,000 passenger miles before April 30. fit in the wardrobe. Some of you might • in the air and she says she hopes to live choose something lighter and add another and work long enough to run it up to dress. W ith it is worn 8 ounce silver Airwoman Incorporates a million. That’s something to look for­ slippers. Airwoman Associates, a co-partnership ward to. Other minor but important details in­ composed of Clara Studer and Fay She first began flying in but let clude six pairs of suntan stockings Gillis, publishers and co-editors of this her tell the story. weighing 6 ounces, two slips, 4 ounces magazine, has been sold to a corpora­ "I began flying in the early twenties apiece, and 4 pair of intimates which tion known as Airwoman, Inc., under (the nineteen hundred twenties, not my total 8 ounces. laws of the State of New York. ow n). As I look back, it must have Add to this 28 ounces of Helena The board of directors of the new been for curiosity’s sake flavored with a Rubinstein’s attractive and compact corporation is: Amelia Earhart, Margaret generous dash of dare-deviling, for surely Beautility Kit, and put it all into a Cooper president 99 Club of women nothing could tempt me to even sit in Wheary Wardrolette guaranteed to hold pilots; Marguerite Jacobs Heron, secre­ such crafts now. The big Boeings a minimum of eight dresses and five pair tary, W omen’s National Aeronautical Douglases and Junkers, which have of shoes and only weighs 11 and a quart­ Association; Clara Studer and Fay Gillis, carried me so many miles in recent years er pounds. co-editors.

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CLOUD CLUB By BETSY BARTON

W e are privileged this month to have secret passion is to build planes, work­ Scripps-Howard Juniors our first foreign member sign up. She ing in a construction plant, but this is During the last two months the is blonde, blue-eyed Hildegarde Cordes impossible until she is older. Scripps-Howard newspapers have been of Hanover, Germany. Our real admiration goes to Mr. and been running a weekly page called the Hilda says she has always been an Mrs. Cordes for having such a daughter junior Aviator—similar to the Junior athlete from the time she was nine years as Hilda and for giving her gliding per­ Birdmen of Hearst papers. old. She is especially fond of swimming. mission in what must seem to American The first four weeks were spent in Her parents approved of this so when mothers and fathers an appallingly constructing the baby glider. The 5th Hilda pleaded for gliding permission, laconic manner. week, assuming that the fundamentals they said: "Sure, go ahead, it's just an­ had been mastered, our junior aviator Flying Holiday other sport.” Hilda then set off for the went on to bigger things— namely the Two weeks ago an unusual conversa­ nearest gliding camp which was at Treb- Endurance R. O. G. tion running somewhat like this took bin. Evidently good fellowship counted place in the Schoolfield home in W ash­ Model Derby just as much as ability to fly for Hilda ington, D. C. In the 7th week, a transcontinental air says she was allowed to remain only be­ derby was started. The two best planes cause she was comradely. Mrs. Schoolfield to daughter Frankie: "How many girls are you having visit (they must be the stick or commercial There are both boys and girls at these you, dear?” fuselage model, rubber-powered , of camps. They are situated in or near Frankie: "Five.” course) from each town are to be towns with good air currents and beaches, selected. The planes chosen are flown etc., for landing fields. Flying and fel­ Mrs. Schoolfield: "How are you all going to get down to Miami?” three times weekly in their hometowns. lowship, those are the chief points in the The record is then wired to the editor in life of the girls and boys who go in for Frankie: "Drive, I guess.” Cleveland, who has already decided how gliding. Together the pilot is started off, Mrs. Schoolfield: "Drive? Frankie, 1 many miles each second in the air is to together the glider is dragged back up won't allow it. You know how dan­ represent, and, he in turn, announces the the hill. Together they eat and work in gerous 1 think it is, and with 6 girls record for each week. the shop. Always: one is with one's in one car— why anything might hap­ In Toledo the first female flight pen.” fellow students— cut o ff from the rest of squadron has been formed. It is com­ the world. No one may leave the camp Frankie: "But mother, then how— ” manded by Betty Jean Shaw, is composed for every new wind must be explored to Mr. Schoolfield (heretofore silent but of 12 girls and has been dubbed the the utmost. always definitely master of his h om e): Amelia Earhart. "W hy not fly?” Hilda passed her A test at Trebbin. W e hope you will span the continent This consists of a curve up over a hill. Thus it was settled and Frankie, for­ at a future date in your home town with When she landed she was greeted and saking school books temporarily, flew the Scripps-Howards, and we imagine congratulated by the instructor as Ger­ with her friends to Florida. They left ground-struck parents cannot but approve many’s youngest gliderette—aged 16. our nation’s Capital at 11:15 and landed of a forced landing on grandpa’s slippers Hilda then went to Leba in Pommerania in Miami at 6 :3 0 . The airline was or mother’s newly polished table. and there completed the course by pass­ Eastern. The plane was a Douglas. The ing off tests B and C. time was seven hours. (See picture on Club of Sixty Hilda’s only grief is that she must Aerial Photography page.) From Framingham, Mass., comes news wait until she is 18 before she will be W e can only here offer up a small o f a very large and very prosperous club. allowed to fly heavier-than-air craft. Her prayer for more father School fields. The enrollment now exceeds sixty and the members, my friends, are all female. Anne McNally is president and their competent secretary bears the name of Marjorie Flenshaw. The club was born in October, 1934, and since then each meeting—or almost each—-has been graced with the presence of one or an­ other of our more prominent women flyers— for instance, Barbara Southgate, Tommy Atkins, Dolly Bernson, Margaret Kimball. Amelia Earhart spoke nearby in Brookline. The members are anxious to start their ground courses this summer but are at present modeling and grounded -—even as you and I. 18

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