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Haering, Resilient Manager FIFTH AVENUE AT FIFTY-FIFTH STREET • NEW YORK CITY Official Headquarters of the 99 Club and Women's National Aeronautical Association FOUR REASONS f o r ^ I R W O T W N ORDERING YOUR FURS NOW * in August you have the pick of the winter pelts . * Leisurely selection . * Savings in workmanship (because up to September 1st work is done CONTENTS at special summer prices) . Laura Ingalls' Record Ship 4 * PELT PRICES HAVE ADVANCED SINCE Scoring Up............................................................ 5 OUR PRESENT STOCK WAS ASSEMBLED Dizzy Depths to Dizzy Heights— By Jeanette AND IT IS UNLIKELY THEY W ILL BE SO LOW AGAIN THIS SEASON . Lempke ........................................... Fay Gillis Invades Ethiopia OUR WINTER MODELS are now being shown Fall Fashion Flashes in the Custom Fur Shop: and The Little Shop of Ready Just Among Us Girls— By Mister Swanee Taylor 8 Furs has reopened with an exceptional collection. A ir Reading— By M abel Britton 8 Going into Transports—By Pat O'Malley 9 Why They Learn to Fly........................................ 10 Jaeckel 546 Fifth Avenue at 45th Street A ir Mass Thunder Storms— By Philip Del Vecchio 11 Flying Superstitions.............................................. 11 < Always busy at Lon" Beach, California Bread and Butter and Aviation— By Emily Thomas 12 < Pot and Pan Mechanics 12 The \1 / R I i n n H Cloud Club—By Betsey Barton 13 > TAYLOR And the Airmen.......................................................... 14 AMERICA'S SAFE PLANE r Post - Rogers— By Swanee Taylor .............. 14 The 99er.......................................................... 16 a s s o c i a t e s - W.N.A.A. Contact .............. 17 CAM-AIR-A Contest.................................... 18 Advice to the Flightlorn— By Sally Sideslip 19 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 Taylor “CUBS” at Municipal Airport, Lony Beach, Cat. K Women's National Aeronautical Association. ft 600 ‘Money-making’ Hours Since March A IR W O M A N is d istrib uted on Am erican Airlines, Boston- Maine and Central Vermont Airways, Braniff Airways, Central npHE Aircraft Associates of Long Beach Airlines, Eastern Airlines, National Airline System, Northwest PAY JU S T ■-say: “Our first CUB has averaged more (han 100 hours, student and solo time, each Airlines, Pan American Airways, Pennsylvania Airlines, Trans­ month since we have had it. (Delivered continental and Western Airlines and United Air Lines, March, 1935.) 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Application for entry as second class Payments NEW FOLDER NOW READY m a tte r is pending. C o p y rig h t 1935 by Airw om an, Inc., New C /3 York C ity. It’s FREE. Fill in coupon on margin- H > TAYLOR AIRCRAFT CO. CO BRADFORD - - - - PENNSYLVANIA r 4 The Smartest Thing Aflight . owned by a woman ! Della Lawhorn, private pilot No. 29008, of Downey, California, and her new Porterfield airplane. IT (^UiPPKD to teeth with everything propeller—flaps—Sperry Gyropilot— that's new ami up-to-date in ship Westport radio compass and standard outfits! instruments. It carries 630 gallons of AIRWOMAN Here it is, for those who have an gas and 40 o f oil. ON THE MAP eye to sheer aircraft heauty, in the On the recent transcontinental As a Special Feature we will tel 1 you Lockheed Orion in which Laura flight I took off' with 600 gallons of next month the first graphic story of Ingalls recently made the first East- gas and 40 of oil. I believe, added to distance flights by the women pilots of the world . Have you ever won­ West non-stop transcontinent flight by weight of my ship empty (4,040 ■ t dered just how' much ground they have a woman. pounds), the heaviest load ever taken covered by air? . Have you wished you could check up <|uickly and find Laura, who was awarded the off by a woman. out what route Elly Beinhorn fol­ Harmon Trophy for women pilots in The flight was made in 18 hours, lowed on her round the world Jaunt? 20 minutes, bettering the record of When she made it? How many miles the United States for her 17,000 mile she traveled? What kind of a ship, solo around South America in 1934, Collver and Tucker in a Lockheed with what engine, she used? . Have may again try to better Amelia Ear- Vega in 1928 by five and a half hours you wondered how many women pilots there were in France, for example? hart's record for the West-East non­ and establishing a woman's record. You will find your answers on a stop of 17 hours and 7 minutes in this The purpose of the flight was to gain two-page map of the world, not only so full of information, hut so decora­ same Orion. personal experience in the use of fuel tive it’s our honest guess you will want There's no knowing what notable economy. No attempt was made for to frame it and hang it up 011 the wall, some place. flying feats she will be chalking up. speed. Also in October: Overhead Wiring We asked her to Jot down a few1 facts LAUKA INGALLS.” problems, by Elinor Smith; the story of his new ship, by Clyde Panghorn, about her new airplane, and this is AIM) two new regular features — a her own account of the ship and their Flying Short Story and AIRWOMAN’S Sky-word Puzzle. recent Joint achievement: And the announcement of our big “ My ship has a supercharged 550 national Sky Language competition horsepower Wasp engine—retractable for Junior Airwomen. landing gear — controllable pitch Laura Ingalls climbs into the coc >it of her low-wing monoplane 5 SCORING UP Galia Piasetskaia and Ania Shish- call the “Races’’ maneuvers in view mareva — have Just claimed a record of the large number of military air­ for a parachute Jump without oxygen craft which engage in the program apparatus. They Jumped from a while conducting their winter flight plane at 25,987 feet. maneuvers. National Air Races From Correspondent Beard My first day on Hank Harris Hill Jacqueline Cochran has filed an (otherwise known as Soaring Site entry in this year’s Bendix Trophy Number One) was spent inspecting with a high-speed Northrop Gamma various craft and watching the pilots’ monoplane. Entries close on serious efforts to put the ships to use August 15 for the w'omen’s handicap by attracting thermal currents with race at Cleveland and we have a hunch suggestive exhibitions of electric fans, there were quite several applications thermos bottles and signs. A trip to more than the 8 who will be allowed the meteorological station disclosed to enter the race placed on record. a weather man toiling over the most We hope so, at any rate. The race is recent reports gleaned from radio, sponsored by Amelia Earhart who is telephone, and telegraph messages, awarding a trophy. According fearing all the while that a decimal to advance reports, most of flying point had been misplaced. Finally, filmland is entering Ruth Chatterton’s in a timid voice he ventured a report eo-educational derby from Los to headquarters that the desired wind Angeles to Cleveland. Six women would arrive within the hour, pos­ pilots have already filed entries. sibly accompanied by a — slight Babe Smith, pilot and member of shower. the Caterpillar Club, will make a de­ The poor fellow had been a bit layed Jump at Cleveland. Crystal Mowry, of Florida, earned a pilot's too conservative about the shower, license by making parachute jumps. She is however, for the rain that began to going up fo r an a ltitu d e jump record soon Miami Races fall would have made Noah feel at at New York Miami’s winter air meet has been home.