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Show WOMAN BECOMES STAJUVIATOR Undaunted bj- the sight of a sister-aviator sister-aviator dashed to death from an aeroplane while she herself soared at tho dizzy height of 3000 feet, MIbb Blanche Stewart Scott, Internationally famous as a transcontinental automobile automo-bile and air pilot, 1b to try for a now woman's record. She will attempt a flight of tho English channel in a hydro-aeroplane within a few days. Though It was only after three sickening attempts that Miss Scott was ahlo to land her biplane when Miss Harriet Quimby was killed at a Boston aviation meet a few weoks ago. Miss Scott was in the air again In a week, and Bho Is now about to undertako a difficult foat, the navlga. tlon of tho treacherous air currents above the English channel. MIbs Scott's first erperlenco in the thrilling life she has chosen camo in 1909, when sho drov an Overland automobile from New York to San Francisco. This wns at a time when women automobile drivers, even on the streets of quiet villages and cities, wero scarce. The route chosen for the transcontinental transcon-tinental tour took the young woman over more than 3000 miles of every Tlnd of road Imaginable; mud and mountains, dosert and prairie. The trip was one to tax the endurance of a strong man, but Miss Scott, favored by a car which gave an excellent account ac-count of itself during the wholo run, devoted her entire energy to driving and maneuvering for the beat highway high-way and came throngh with flying colors. |