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Show Won Knltkr$ w .1 S.L Woman j I Recalls , First Flight ' Twenty-three years ago. a Salt Lake City girl donned a flying suit that was too big for her, pulled on a leather helmet, and. after settling set-tling big flying goggles over her blue ayes; waved merrily to cn-I cn-I lookers. I "Well, hers goes," she exclaimed excitedly, and eltmbed Into the open cockpit of the frail biplane which stood Idling on the flight atrip at the old Salt Lake City airport. Into that commonplace expression expres-sion of the 'SOs she packed a lot of meaning, for as she stepped Into the ok) converted M-S she became the first woman paissnger to maks a commercial airline flight Is the United States. Were Kalckera That waa on June 10, 1K6. Mrs. Maude Brown Campbell wore men's "knickers" wider her flying suit, paid a far of 110 round trip and arrived In Los Angeles from Salt Lake City at six hours and (0 minutes. Thursday, Sept L 104, she retraced re-traced her trail-blazing flight of 33 yean ago, arriving at 1:40 p.m. ' aboard the Inaugural trip of West-rn West-rn Air Lines Convalf 49er service -between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, flight tuna on this trip waa only two hours and 68 minutes, min-utes, the plans carrying 40 passengers pas-sengers In ground-level comfort, and In modern hnrury and security. Mrs. Campbell was Impressed with the wonderful strides ia aviation avia-tion which have produced "such a , magalflosnt ship'' as the Coavalr attar only 33 years. Mors af a Thrill But Mrs. Campbell thought the -i- first flight waa "mora of a thrill" than this ana. , "I wore a pair of men's knickers under the flying suit slacks were unheard of la those dsys, remember," remem-ber," she laughed. "There were just the pilot and myself ia the plana, heavily loaded down with suits, helmets, goggles aad para-shutes. para-shutes. The msil bags were under our feet. It waa uncomfortable, I guess but I enjoyed every minute min-ute of tt." Mrs. Campbell will remain in Salt Lake City for ths week and, ! returning Monday to bar home In Loa Angeles. |