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Order of Fifinella Publisher Betty Jane Williams, President )00 Main street Apt. 5E Whi te Plains, New York "Dodie" I. Aspell, Vice-Pres. 1548 Kelton Avenue Los Angeles 24, California Irene I. Crum, Secretary-Trease 2780 Elmwood Avenue Huntington 2, West Virginia These officers compose the Executive Committee, and are also members of the Advisory Board.

CONTENTS Are Women Pilots Margaret M. Hurlburt Hurlburt Hurricane Consolidated Vultee XB-)6 Shireen M. Phelps Ponca City Rotor Wings-Ann K. Shaw Wasps in Africa
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School Mar.m---Wasp Type 'Round the World in a Cub Wasps in the News Powder Puffs for Men In Memoriam Los Angeles Chapter New York Chapter Mr. Stork's & Cupid's Logbook

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Advisory Board Faith F. Buchner Mickie carmichael Betty Haas Mary E. McFadden Elizabeth Watson) Dorothy Avery ) Clara Jo. Stember Ruth Mary Petry Illinois Texas New York Washington, D.C. Los Angeles Ex-Officio Ex-Officio

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The WASP NEWSLETTER is published bi-monthly by the Order or Firine11a. This organization was rormed prior to the inactivation of the Women's Airforce Service Pilot Program, December 20, 1944. It is legally incorporated under the corporate seal of California. This publication is devoted primarily to the activities of the WASPs and other pertinent information regarding "women in aviation".

Hally Stires, Exec. Sea. National Headquarters

3633 Lavell Drive Los Angeles 41, Calif.

Anne Berry Editorial Office 417 E. 9th Street Apt. 14 New York 3. N. Y.

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ARE WOMEN PILOTS? Marge Hurlbert was a good pilot. She wes a good frieni of flyers. She loved aviation; she wes convinced ot the nn-. portance of aviation and she wes willing to work hard to help aviation prove itself: she was also convinced ot the important part that women can p~ in this masculinely dominated field and she wee willing to work hard to help women in aviation prove themselves. There's a touch of the bitterly ironic in,the knowledge that Marge was killed tryine to earn money to finish construction on her awn midget racer which she wanted flown in the Goodyear Race--by a man pilot, because the race is barred to women pilots. You'll note' that the word 'pilot' has been carefu~~y pre. faced by a generic modifier, because to some persons in the aeronautical world that's extremely important. To them, as yet, there are not simply 'good PILOTS' and 'bad PILOTS', but there are 'men pilots' and 'women pilote' and 'good or bad men pilots' and 'good or bad women pilots', but there ib a difference--and it should always be noted. What Marge was 1iOrking toward was an erasement of that differentiation. What she wanted wes air races where PILOTS fly in open competition. The good ones win--period. A sign of encouragement that more persons with authority in the aeronautics field are baginning to see her--and all women pilots' view (as yet, the term 'women' must be used for clarification)--is' the fact that the Miami All-American Air Maneuvers from good indication will be open this yeer to women. Gene Landman, 44-5, New York, wrote to Mr. S. C. ".Tiggs"Huffman, General Manager of the show, asking him why women were barred in last year's show. Here's part of his answer: "The present management of the Maneuvers realizes end appreciates the great part that women have played in the development of aviation during the pest seven years and can see no reason why they should not participate in any and all aviation events. It is therefore our intention to have some female participation in our forthcoming Meneuvers. .Tustwhat type of participation this will be hns not been decided at this time Whether or not there will be competetive events for the women fliers depends a great deal upon how much money we are able to raise to pay for the eventa." Mr. Huffman, Who wrote a cordial letter, said it was his belief that the past manager had barred women because during the men's considerable experience with the ahow, he had always found their entry to result in a "naaty mese with much squabbling end publicity Which adversely affected the Maneuvers, and he vowed that a8 long as he had anything to do with the Maneuvers, women would be barred from participation therein.Such persons as he describes--and the menager's action must have had some basia in fact--can go a long way toward ruining the chance of women to prove themselves in aviation for a long time to come. Most ~SPs are too adult f~r this sort of pettiness. They know what the odds are against women flyers, they know what we have to win and what we stand to lose. By using intelligence, good sportsmanship, Bnd cooperativeness, 0 yes, and a sprinkling of humor to help us maintain our equilibrium, we can go far toward removing that qualifying 'woman' in front of PILOT. Marge Hurlburt had made a start. MARGAllETM. WIlLBURT

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, With others Iiki her, ex.schooltealhef Marge Hurlburt, who hol~s women"s speed record, is fi~ting1fo, feminine recognitio~n :;~~~~

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Born December 30, 1914, in the State of Ohio, Marge Hurlburt graduated from the Painesville High School, in Ohio in 1932. After working for two years she started to college in Bowling Green, Ohio from which she was graduated in 1938 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She taught for one year in Cygnet. Ohio, then to Bettsville, Ohio where she taught for three years. SUbjects most prominent in her teaching were physical education, home economics, English, and speech. When driving home for summer vacation after her fourth year of teaching she stopped at the Willoughby Airport in Willoughby, Ohio which is some 10 miles from her home in Psinesville. It took but a few minutes to learn of the possibility of taking lessons that summer, and the opportunities in flying. A few days later she started her first flying lessons and began her new duties as Registrar. Marge flew during the remainder of that summer and into the winter of 1943, getting IJ)st her time for her privete license in Luscombs of and Cubs. In April, 1943, Willoughby Airport sew Marge off to Sweetwater, Texas with a rarewell in fine airport style. To Merge, Sweetwater, Texes was as all WASPs knew it: PT's, BT's, AT's end UC 78's, then graduation with the clas.
of 43-lI'-6.

Assigned to Lubbock, Texas, South Plains Army Air Field, for glider towing with a group of other WASPs, Marge became familiar with the Lockheed Lodestar, C-60. From October to February, 1944 glider towing was the order of the dsy. In February, Marge wes transferred to B-26 transition school at DJdge City, Kansas, where ahe was chosen Squadron Commander to represent the group of 15 to 20 girls while in training. Marge graduated as First Pilot and weB assigned to Petterson Field at Colorado Springs, Colorado, with two other First Pilots end three co-pilots. After two months of towing targets at Peterson Fisld for B-24's, the base was converted to a pursuit school. Marge and the other five girls with their AT-23's were transferred to Great Bend, Kanses. At Great Bend, with Marge as Squadron Commander the girls were well received by the B-29 base. Fran then until deactivation in December of 1944, the girls towed targets for air-to-air gunnery, did administrative flights end B17 co-pilot work es well. These girls were well pleased with the cooperation given them by the Air Force Peraonnel and the Base Commanders. At the time of deactivation, the Great Bend Army Air Base devoted a full morning to a dress parade, complete with band, in honor of the services rendered by these girls and all WASPs throughout the United States. T'was a sad dsy when Marge stepped from the B-17 which delivered this group of girls to ,the bases closest their homes. A couple of weeks vacation weB plenty. Marge met one of the girls she had been stationed with in Chicago end they did the town looking for work--flying, of course. General opinion in Chicago, at that time, went something like this, "Bleck ie Black, White is White, and Pilots are
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In the last issue of the Newsletter, the names of Clara .To Marsh Stember and Ruth Petry were inadvertently left off the list of Advisory Board members. As past executive officers, according to Section 2, Article V of the by-laws, they are members of the Advisory Board with voting power and ex-officio members for the year following their term of office, with like privilege.

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Atter due deliberation, both girls returoed to Marge's home in Painesville. Instructors ratings seemed like a good idea at the moment, but it took a few weeks, due to the fact that several PT-19 trips to Oklahoma (war surplus, you know) cluttered up the practicing a bit. Marge was the first of the group to get her instructors rating, thus asdsting the others. Instructing and teaching ground school was a pretty good living for e whila, then Clme the Cleveland National Air Races. Herb Tanner, Marge's boss at Chagrin Harbor Airport in Willoughby, owned an AT-6. When the Balle Race was announced, no deliberation was necessary. Marge entered it in Mr. Tanner's airplane. It was a new and interest1n8 field to Marge--speed runs, practicing turns with minimum loss of speed, finding a sponsor, checking on the stripping down of the airplane, getting licenses for racing, end sO on. Came the day of ths race, stiff competition from the other gals, five laps of very excellent tlying--winning by
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Professional Race Pilots AS90ciation for 1947. She became very intereated in the racing geme snd the need for a new clss. of racing airplane which cane out of the 1946 races. Something slowsr, smeller, and within the price bracket of the sportsman pilot; a race not ot the military class, a buildsrs' and pilots' race--wbich is being sponaored by the Goodyear peopls for the nert three years. Marge found a backer, rounded up a designer end builder end started a Midget Racer on ite way to reality. But not happy with resting on the laurels of being tbe winner of the Halle Race, nor too busy with teaching ground school subjects on flying, end instigating the building of a Midget Racer, Marge began thinking about the speed record tor
women.

Racing pilots meetings and the attitude of the men toward wollllln pilote and toward racing with them bothered Marge a 11ttle--8he resolved to do all in her power to change it. tlarge liaSthoroughly convinced tbllt it women would raoe among themselves and prove themselves, and prove the, they ceall get along with one another (which we know is pos.~ble), the men would unconsciously admit them to their oompetition. Marge wa. elected to the Board of Directors of the

Someone asked if there was a speed record, Marge looked into records, found the speed, and tha date it was set. "Emmm, not very fast", must have run through her mind, for soon afterward, Cook Cleland, who raced a Vaught Corsair in the Thompson in 1946, and Marge had it all fixad. March 16, 1947 Marge broke that speed record with Cook's ~s Vaught Corsair, the "Lucky Gallon". Her hane town, "The City of Paineavilla" backed her at the All Womens Air Show in Tampe, Florids. It W8~ a very happy day for Merge, for her mother end .eTeral aunts end cousins had driven sll the way to Florida for the big ehow. ldarge had much praise tor the wonderful paople abe met and the cooperation of those who helped har. All wen\ well in Florida, but all was not going well (continued on pege 11, col. 2)

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001l8GLIDLDD VUL!D XB-3e 8-;) t1:aore.cellt l1ght1Dg t1nure., II!' tho IIqulmesn at :58IllU" it t.y lald enll to ed, rar eaoU&hto .trotch fl'Olll lort Wor" to Dalla Yherw a1'8 approximawly 100,000 lndividual interior aDd ext.rior 11&ht .0111'01IS the buildings and around the ln erouDd of the plant, oount 1ng each inoandescent or fluors.cent fixtures a. an it~. fte plant and ground. COTerIIIOrethan 400 .orws, .ith me" than 8,000,000 .quare feet at peved working space-the OquiTll.lent ot abOllt 200 paved acre. or enough to paTe four-:.lsne hlch1lllYbet.een Fort Worth snd Dallas. It is tho lerge.t dngle plant paTed working area in the alrcraft lndust1'1. The oooling syat8111 utllizes 14,000 gallons of water a Ill1nute, enoU8h to aupply the averags da ily 1l8ter consumptlon ot two ci tie. the I1ze of fort Worth and Dalles. R.trlgeretor. of the cooling system have a capacity twioe that of all tho household refrigerators in NewOrlean., or Fort Worth and Dalla. oombined. It r.quireo more fuel to operate the plant's air conditioning in aummerthan it doe. the heating system in winter. Used as insulation in the plant building is enough fiberglass to stubb wells ot 500,000 aTerage sized homes. The f.oilities of thill plant. as well as the type of manufacturing being performed, provide conditions tor employees among the most ideal in this country.
---Ava Hemm, 44-6

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. U la.t Con.olUated Vult haG partially 11tted tho nl1 ot HOroOYtrca around their latllll.t bomber, the 8-S6. ft07 rooOlltly p.rlllitted .ca. 200 1III pap.r people through tho plant and the tollo.ing od-.nd peraitt.d ~plo:ree. taailio. and at inTit.d citiz.n. ot Fort Worth to get a clo.. Ti ot tho hugo plallll. Tba'B-36 he. litt.d 278,000 pound.--13; tona--the heavie.t load . 1' lUted by a plane. n 10 a long re:a.ge ve.,. hoaTY bcabar nt airoraft capable ot oarr;ying 10,000 pounds ot bellb. 10,000 .11811. Tba t:rue .ize ot thi. ship _s really brought hane in that it dwertod a B-ll'i parked IlIIlIarby the extend th8t the to ll'i appeared to be a toy along aide it. The rudder and vertical tin ot the B-36 extend 46 teet 7 inches above the ground, or tor comparison, ae high as a tour story build1Jl8. 'l'b8 aurtace area of the horizontal stabilizer is only 18 square inches shorter than the surface area of the B-24 .ing. Another interesting feature 18 that the pilots cockpit 18 80 far from the ta11 turret that the crew CaDmutesby rel1. A tiny oar an traoks travels through a 30 inch pressurized tube, connecting these stations. The fuselage of this bomber has a volume of 17,724 oubic teet, with the bombbay area ocoupying a spaoe equal to four railroad freight C61'S. It is powered with six Pratt and Whitney WASP ajor M engines rated at 3000 hp oh. These engines are mounted with three-bladed, l;-foot Ourti. electric hollow steel propeller., .hich are ths largest ever installed on an airplane. The pusher type engines are mounted in the oenter wing, 1lhich 18 144 feet long. The total wing sp an is 230 feet. Along with the IIlginos, the center wing also houoe. integral tuel tanlc8, 011 tanka, aix flape, and component parta, a. well as 80me 50 milee of .iring 8Dd tubing conneoted with the engines and controls. The ruel tan1c8 hold a total of 21,1+6 gallon. of gasoline, or ~ railroad tank cers full, or more than enough to take an autOlllobile around the .orld 16 times then through a tour of the 48 states. It is actually more gasoline than the aTerage motor1st would use in 20 years. The 011 tanks hold more than 1,000 gellon One tire, tube, 1II1eeland brake on the main gear ot the exper1lllental model or prototype weights 5,000 pouDds. Inasmuch as it would require many hours ot labor with a Whole crew ot men working with special bu11t heavy equipment to change auch a tire in case ot a tla t, the tact ical ships w11l have a truck type gear instead. This consists of tour 52inch 1II1eels in place of each of the lerger ones or a total of 10 .heela ,on the plane. With this .et up, a wheel can bill ohallged in cOIIIiParati vely l!Ihort t1llle and can be handled eadly by t.o lEn. During bCllllbing m1eaions the B-36 .111 have a no1'lll81 ore. of "14 IIl8n, lncluding tour IDIln .ho will .erTe as reliet. It will not be uncQlllllOn for thlo ship to fly a min1auIIlof 60 hour. on OI1eflight. It 18 so well balanced thet it 4oe. not require any more strength to fly it than it does any ot the b:llilor type plane !he Consolldated Plant in Ban Diego ls constructing a tren.port t.in ot ths B-3e, the XC;;. It ls oapable of oal'l'7ing .co troops or 355 litter Ja tie lit ., or may be u d to oarr;y 100,000 pouDlll. of cargo. The XC-II; has the SEme wing and ;ponr plante the B-36. '1'be Port Worth Consolidated Vulte. Plant 18 tooling up to turn OIlt at l_.t 100 at these bombers ln the nlllll.l' uture. f IJlIllllaUllh thl8 10 the largest integrated e.1rcratt plant in Ope:raUOIltoday, alld the .eoollll largest during the weI', it lIa. 80_ lnterwat1ng fact. ablll1t it. For lnstance, the embly bui14.1ng 10 ',000 feet lang, nearly 4./5 of a mlle, and naarly equal. the aroa at eight cl ty blocks. All of the '"11ld1Ag t thl. plant are windo.10Bs. The aa.embly build ing Uil parh plant bul1d1Ag haTe a tot.l of 32,6110fiTe-foo'

SHlREI:N M. PHELPS Twenty-two year old Shireen ?helps, in Seattle, Washington on saturday, to make a forced 44-8, was killed

July 19 when she crashin a BT-13, ac-

ed while trying cording

landing

to word received

by friends

in NewYork. Mess. thet with a 14-year-old and Sher-

tmrgaret

Moore writes

from ~ittsfield,

Sherry had taken off from noeing ~ield boy. The engine sputtered, caught,

then wsnt out,

ry epun in trying

to make a 180 back to the field. states that as she remembers, there about 150 feet highto is

Margaret further s cliff

on the north end of the tield elevation. this cliff

er than field avoid hitting

She thinli::s Sherry was trying and decided that her alternative

was to turn- back. She quotes Sherry as being a safe and conscientious pilot, as she knew her. The girls had the seme instructors on In-

in 8everal phases at Avenger and were buddy riders struments. It our girls i. with regret

that we note the loes of another of

and a good pilot.

SITE OF THE lIASP SECORD NATIONAL REUNION

Aerial view of pert of the area and buildinBs on the north side of the Ponca City Municipal Airport acquired by Piper Aircraft Corporation for the first regional assembly plant ever inaugurated for personal aircraft. From August 25 to August 27, thia airport will ba one of the main centers of activity for the WASPs gathered to take part in the Second National Reunion. Once around the pattern end land, then out of the cockBy now you all surely must know there's a WASP Secpit and over to the Judges stand where each drinks a coke, and National Convention in the Offing. and takes off her shirt. It will be at Ponca City, Oklahoma, with a follow-up the pattern, another coke, and off with tha pants. at the C1BTeland Air Races for all those who can make it chance to show rour suntanl from the WASP reunion and for the gals on the East coast back on. who can't fianance a trip farther West than CV. Anyhoo, it will all be fun, whether you attend one meeting or both. Plans are underway to maka th is sallathillg Rockettes. The Winnah gets a prize--mehbe an offer from the But this is one race in which we predict much by the of course lerge end enthusiastic In like manner, the clothes go lfhsta Once ~ora in the plane and around

interest ~nifest audience.

special--in the way of fun, of furthering us as an organization, and of settling a few serious business matters, such as the Memorial Fund, and whet shall we do about it. The reunion at Ponca begin.s August 25 and laste 1011 the 27th. Then, it you can, you romp on up to Clneland for

Onp of our hosta at Ponca is Mr. Tom E. Smyer, of Smyer Aircraft Sales and Services. Mr. Smyer has the Oklahoma dis-

tributorahip of Cubs end will help us with the flying events at the fiald. August 30 is sign-in day at CV, then off to the races, and then the annual dinner and dsnce of the Air Races. The

the eTents there which begin August 30. At Ponca, there'll bs flying--a chance to log 30 minutee in that little black book, even if you don't make a spot lan ding or drop the flour baub in the circle, aad one new number that should be raoe."
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WASPs will have thair own tabla reserved and heve aaked salle VIPs to sit with them. At this dinner, in our own corner,

the WASPs will honor all women participanta in the Halle Race. A lIASP exhibit, complete with pictures, ia planned to be placed in the lobby of the Hollenden Hotel. Plan to be at Ponca or CV one, roger?

wheeeee.

It's celled a "pants

Interpreted, this means thet two gals grab themsel-

TeB a Cub each and take off--and then take off soma more.

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WASP IN AFRICA When my husband, rticky, decided to quit loafing for the Army and take a job with the State Department in the Belgian congo, I agreed heartily, as his easy going attitude toward everything is so catching. However, our parents were horrified to learn that we were going to race off to parts so unknown, and they undoubtedly had visions of me leavi~g c safari into the jungle to have our expected baby behind a bush. Naturally all this parental concern made me feel so brave and 'Mrs. Johnaon' like that 1 wes more eager than ever to go. After the miles of red tape of the State Department (what the Army forgot, the State Depsrtment has rElJlenilered in the red tape division) we were off to the Dark Continent in an army transport type ship. I was in a cebin with four other women and Rick>" shared a small cabin with five other men. Hardly de luxe accommodations. Two weeks out we sighted Dakar, a pretty siGht from the sea, but what a smell on shorel Our first day on shore was rather discouraging in thut the army commander in charge of the base there was mad at the Consul and wouldn't let us stay at the base. Hut it ended well in that we stayed at the Standard 0 il hou se, wh ich was by fer the roo st impressive and luxurious house in ell of French West Africa. lIncidently if you go overseas, hit Standard Oil for a job; they really treat their personnel right.) At this point, the.gover~ent fiscal year had run out and our orders were no longer good, so fifteen telegrams and two weeks later we managed to talk our way into on ATC plEne end so got to Accra. This was where Ricky first landed when he went overseas in the Army. We spent a pleasant week here at the very fi .e airbase. By now my trim figure had bulged rather awkwardly at various places and since I obviously didn't look much like a U.S.O. girl, I was taken for a missionary. If you've seen many missionaries, you know that is no cocpliment. At long If.st we landed at Leopoldville, hot and calloueed fro~ bucket seats, so what awaited us was a most pleasant surprise. We could hardly believe it when we arrived at our hwse supplied by the government, staffed with six servants, and it was apparent thet 1 was to do nothing but sit which didn't hurt my feelings one hit. rticky was given e nice office, a new car, end a chauffer who would me.ke a New York taxi driver seer.:tame f.ne sefe. About the onIr thing that reminded us of deepest !.frics ware the tom-toms beating from the native villeges on the outskirts of Leopoldville. Sounded something akin to a Samba rhythm. Heally, 1 was ashamed to write hOiTleabout tho, 8a:-prising conditions when 1 knew the f'ol1<8were thinkinS ?ihet a brave girl I was. But ~lch a lovely, lazy life o~ entertaining and being enterteined did get tiresome. However, now with a 40-year-old, eight room house plus a baby to t&kp. cere of, it seems ridiculous that I could get so sick of having so many servants and not being able to do things myself. I'd Sflttle f'or half of them right now. After six months of thia 1 was itching to leave this modern town and see so;ne of the interior and native life, SO we wandered through 801"00 of the outlying native villeges, primat ive and such a contr!!st to Leopoldvi 11e. Later on hicky got a chance to lmke a 5000 mile tour of the Congo with an ar~, pilot in a ~C-3 and ~e thou~~t of course I wwld go along, but with the baby due in a month, the pilot refused to have anything to do with me. 1 guess I did look rather sad at that stage of tha game. It was just as well, es they ?/ent to some pretty roush spots and went big game hunting.
There arf more switches to turn than in an automobile, or even in a plane, Havin/{ turned on the master switch (electric self-startu) and the /{as switch, she starts tbe magneto switch. similar to the il{nitiofl in a car. Then comes tbe enkine button and site's ready to go. Ann. wears culottes _nd moccasins, but says 'coptelj flying could b. done in a date dress and high heels jU3t as well. If 'copters were cheaper 5he'd ratbtr have ont!! tban .I car.

Like al1 ~ood helicopter pilot.';, 24.year-old Ann KIrk Shaw checks the tall rotor lor any loose screws belou takin/{ 011, /rom the Municipal Sky port at 2Jd street and the East River. Ann, who expects to sn8K the first belicopter license eyer Riven to a woman tomorrow, will work for tbe Metropolitan Ilvlatio-n Corporation. An ex,. Wasp, she learned to Ily the 'copter in less than two months.

Ann was in the laat cla8s at Avenger, 44-10, and served only a week after graduation at Perrin Field, Sherman, Tex8e before returning hOllllo Connecticut. t There she put her training to good use and got her instructor's rating at the Westport Seaplanp. 3aae. She th~n went to work for ~etropolitan Aviation Corp., selling and delivering airplanes. When they bought two Bell helicopters ebout 5 months ago she got her liscenso and has been working with the new maChines aince. They're an awful lot of fun, Ann seys, after you get used to them. and they do about everything.

80 I stayed ha~e end unhappily sweated them out while they had a marvelously interesting trip. including being scared half to death by a charging buffalo and a rather mild h1ppo. A month later our daughter was born and in comper ison to the crowded hos)itals in the United stutes, tl:is place

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The XE-36 in flight, ita six Pratt and Whitney WASP Major engines, turning up a total of 18,000 horse power. The pusher type engines are mounted iD. the cent&r wing and the three bladed, 19 foot Curtis electric props are the largest ever installed on an airplane. The giant ship can carry 10,000 pounds of bombs 10,000 miles, and can fly beyond 60 hrs. in on flight.

The immenseness of the Army' s new plane is broDght home when viewed next to a B-29. One can see how necessary is the tiny car on tracks which carries the crew from one end of the ship to the other. The bomb bay areaequals the space of four rail road freight cars.

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SCHOOL JURa(, WAl'l' TYPE

'ROUND TH! llORLD IN A CUB

A flight around the world by two Piper Cub Cruiser light planee took-off from New York in August. The pilots are George Tr\lJlllUl, yearll of age, the American eon of a sas39 katchewan, Canada homeeteader, well-known West Coast motoroycle hill climber end veteran pilot of 19 years' experience, and Clifford V. E'YSIl., Jr., 26 year. of age. a former AA:P B-25 pilot. and the fourth generation descendant of one of .ashington's oldeet familie The Modern J.lagellans,as -they are called, w111 be attempting a f.at never before tried in an airplane of les. than 575 horsepower. They will head their 100 horsepower American, sport planes northeast, on the firet leg of their journey, to Goosebay. Labrador. Some 22,~6 miles later, they hope to be the first to oomplete a globe ciroling flight in a sport plane and prove thereby the efficiency and dependability of Amerioen personal airoraft. Not aiming at any speed rscords, En.ns and TrUlllBn expect the flight to take from 30 to 45 day.. Their route will take them acrosll the Atlantic via Greenland, Iceland, the British lales, and Europe. From there, they will follOll' the established air routes to India, with transit stops at Tunis, Bengesi, Cairo and Abadan, after whioh the most critical lags of the trip "ill face them. A long 900 mile hop across the steaming jungles of Thailand and Burm will take them from Calcutta to Bangkok, but the toughest trip of all is the 1850 miles overweter hop from Hokkaido, Japan to the pinpoint objective of Attu at the far eDd of the Aleutians. If the Russians grant permission to refuel at Kamchatka. this leg will be reduced to a simple 1050 mile hop up the SBhkilian Peninsula and then a 850 mile hop to Attu. Even on this longest hop the Cub Cruisers "ill carry sufficient fuel to give a reserve renge of over 800 miles. The trim, red and cream ships which Evans and Tr1men will use each carry 100 extra gallor,s of gasoline, giving a total capacity of 138 gallons for a 27-hour 2600 mile range at economy cruise speed of 95 miles per hour. They are equipped with all the latest flight aids including Bendix I~dio direction finders, VHF transmitters, the famous Sperry Gyrosyn Compass, and complete blind flying Ko1l8lllBninstruments. Major modification in the airplanes consisted of removal of the rear seat, which normally seats 10"0 passengers. and inetallation of two speCially-constructed 50-gallon gas, tanks, one on top of the other. This extra 100 gallons of fuel supplements the plane's normal capacity of 38 gallons carried in the two winge. At an economy cruise of 95 mph at most efficient altitude, fuel consumption 1e in the neie~borhood of 5 gallons per hour giving the plsnes a range of 27 hours snd 2600 miles. Except for the Hokkaido-Attu jump, this represente a range well over double any of the other legs of the flight. The standard Cruiser engine, which will be called OA to lift ~he 400-pound overload on take-offs, is the Lycoming 4-cylinder 100-horsepower Model 0-235-C engine renowed for its reliability, smoothnese and freedom from maintenance. Little if any engine maintenance work, outside of routine inspections, is contemplsted for the entire trip which will require approximately 200 hours of flying time. Provisions for additional oil have been made by the installation of a four-quart auxiliary oil reservoir located in the headlining of the cabin. A special oil level gauge on the instrument panel will indicate when the oil is running low. Transfer of the oil can then be mede from the auxiliary tank into the engine by simply opening a valve. For maximum efficiency in both take-off and cruise, the planes haTe been equipped with the new McCauley Met-L Props. whose knife-thin metal blades assure maximum effeotive power. The Met-L Props ere so CQll.tructed that they give not only shorter take-off and increased climb performance, but also slightly faster cruise parformance.
AIR VIEW shows the C.46 classroom

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Never let it be said that a WASP does a job in an ordinary manner--not even an ordinary job like teac~ing school. She's about the only one of her kind, we'll wager--a flying teacher teaching flying in a flying machine But that's Betty Thompson, 44-6, and thet's the job sh~ does and that's the place she does it. Betty is instructing aviation subjects to boys snd girls in the fifth through the eighth grades as part of the regular cirriculum of an out of the way grammer school in California. Her school house is a C-46 converted for teaching purposes. It seats 35 children, and she usee the navigator's seat and desk for her desk. The pilot's compartment is used only for aviation training. Aviation is an elective, and the kids may chooae it in preference to shop, drama, agriculture, or eane of the more standard oourses. Aaronautical classes sound just like Avenger ground school; theory of flight, meteorology, navigation and eircraft identification. Betty will also give Link trainer instruction as soon as the machine, donated by a locel service club, arrives. A surplus AT-G, a Fairchild PT-19, and an Aeronca trainer are the planes on the full sized airport field that actually fly, and the entire school staff flies them. For the complete story about Betty and her unusual job, watch the Sept. issue of Skyways magazine.

Gross take-off weight will be approximately 2200 pounds. or about 400 poundll more than standard weight for (continued on page 12, col. 2)

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IrASPS IN

THE NEWS

POWDER PUFFS for MEN (Lest issue we published excerpts from an article written by Frederiok Nee17 in which he went to bat for women pilots. Below is an item of the _ type, written by Ray Long, at the'time Editor of Cosmopolitan. ~hie editorial would be gratifying to women flyer. today--it was published in July, 19301) Some of the newspapers .eem to get a lot of fun out of calling the wOlllBn's cros.continent airplane race "the powder-putf derby." That sort of humor makes me tired. One of the contestants is Amelia Earhart. You know about her flight across the (lAmtUa Atlantic. You know the other daring, courEarlutrt agecus things she's done in the air. If you know anything about flying at all, you know that what she has accomplished requires more than courage, mors than training. It demands a cool head, a brain quick in emergencies but slow in taking chances. And Miss Earhart has even more than those qualities. For two years she has been a member of our organizaticn. In all my experience, I've never worked with a pleasanter, more capable, more likable person. She's as modest es modesty itself; she's more painstaking than moat of our staff; she is prompt, alert, obliging--Just the sort of person it's a delight to have in the offioe. Another contestant is Elinor smith, who broke all records for altitude, became unconscious from lack of oxygen several thousand feet in the air, recovered when her ~lene was almost ready to crash, landed aafely, and found herself famous. Recently, in the radio studio in the beautiful new building of the Detroit Times, I heard :~issSmith talk over the redio. The editors of the Times wanted me to precede her with a talk, but frankly, me n I looked at the miorophone, I got a fine ~ase of stage fright. You should heve seen Miss Snith. (Believe me, this 18-year-old blonde would be worth walking a mile to aee, even if she weren't famous.) She stood up to the ~ike" as ,calmly ss if she were reciting in class, said what she had to say in e clear cool .voice, refused to conaider any of her flying achievements remarkable, and won everyone in the room by her ch6r~ and her modesty.
(lEliRor
Smillt

Included in the growing--we hope-lillt o~ WaSP friendll in the preas and radio held is GeIl8Evans, a former _mber of Skyways magazine staff. She now has a woman's program over KROC, Rochester, Minnesota, at 3 pm central time. The IItationbroadcests on 1340 kilocyclell and is affiliated with the Northwest and Southern Minnesota Network. Gene writeu Clara J'oMarsh Stamber, 44-2, that she'll use bitilof news about WASPs from time to time; she certainly did us proud in the particular show from which we've, quoted sections. All the persons mentioned in the script are quite nice, we're aure, but we've been ruthleasly selfish and hacked out practically all incidants not pertaining to WASPs, so if the article below reads incoherently now and then, you'll know that "Susie" wanderad off our subject. "Susie" is a very convenient friend of Gene's who's given to writing letters and who is most cooperative in saying in these lettera anything Gens wants to get across on her program. And Gene ha e promised that "Suaie" w11l cane through with whatever we want said about IiASPa,particularly concerning campensation ~or those who ware injured in service. Hare's the acript incidentnlly, the program is caned "Kathryn Neville ttma." "And apeaking of parties I had a .lettsr from my friend Susie, in New York all about a party that she went to. Let's aee, now I.think I borught it with me Yea, here it isShe aays Dear Kathryn I went to a party this aft(lrnoon at Phyllis Ryder's (44-1) house She's the lovely girl who played Sally in the Voice of the Turtle on Brosdway this spring She played in the road production, too Did you hear her on the Luncheon at Sardi's radio program a fall' eeks w ago! She has the most unusual voicel I met her a week or so be~ore she started her Broadway engagement in The Voice of the Turtle, and I was completely charmed by her perfectly lovely smile and the way she wesrs her hair lt's light brown, cut quite s~ort, and there's a look of the gamin about it. She has great, big eyes and the moet charming smile I've ever seen She was wearing a three-quarter length light blue coat Oh, a beautiful bluel.,And a white sweater and a blue skirt to match her coat and a very gay scarf tied around her neck in a very becoming way There were severel others there at lunch that first time I met Phyllis Ryder end Merrill Hopkins, and Clsm Jo stember She used to be Clara J'oMarsh (44-2) and was a ',VASP during the warWell, to get back to Phyllis Ryder Phyllis majored in drama at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor end when the war cam along, Phyllis Joined the WASPs, they were the Women's Airforce service Pilots, you remember Then when the ~Ps deactivated, she went overseas with a USO troup in "Dear Ruth", and spent six months entertaining the Allied troops in France and Germany Well, by the t1Jlle ou get this letter, Phyllis will be back home in Musy keegon, Michigan, for a visit with her folks but she'll be in New York again some time in August, and I'll write you more about her then By the way, speaking of the IlASPs do yoo remember back in August, last year, when the WASPs flew a hundred planes Piper Cubs, in mass formation fran Lock Haven, Penn., to Akron, Ohio? The WASPs have a national organization, you know, caUea the Order of Fi~inella, so they celled their mass flight "Operation Fifinella" Clara Jo Stember, led that mess flight of Piper Cubs Imaginel A hundred airplanes, all ~lying in formation, and piloted by wamenl You saw pictures of that flight in the papers, I!m sure Clara J'oused to ferry army plene s during the war, and taught many men pilote to fly She's an associate art editor, now, for Skyways Magaz1Jle The WASPs were a remarkable lot of girls, weren't they7 Many of them became flying instructors aftsr the war, and one of the most interesting WASP flying instructors is Dorothy Swain,(44-5) 3esids8 teaching former GI's to fly, Dot Swain is en accomplished portrait painter And she does the most amusing flying stunt that anyone has devised to date She's a very attractive you~ lady, and an extremely

These t~u will be in the "powder-puff derby. "

\fell, if the,'are a fair sample of the e~ficiency, poise and modesty of these air women, I know quite a few fellows posing as he-men who might emulate these women to their own great advantsge, and to the advantags of th08e who pay their salaries--even if they have to buy a couple of powder puffs to accomplish it. R.L. **** ~va Hamm writes that Lt. Carl "Dutch" Hientz, has regular run to the Aleutian Chain now, flying G-47's. Lt. Hientz was stationed at Pecos Army .Ur Field and Ava says he wae a good friend o~ all the ~ASP there. ****
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'Round the World in a Cub (cont. from pege 10) ROTOR P-ILQ,T (cont. from'page 7) Foot pedals work in CODJunction with the stick" which regulates the direction of the machine. It can fly backWard, forward and sideways. It'. karder to fly than a plane, becauss the pilot must constantly regulate its direction. The 'copter'. front section is transparent so the pilot can Bee the land. the Piper Super Cruiser, whieh n01'lll81lyoarries three passengers end ill used for business and training flying. Throughout the flight, Evs.n. and Truman 'w111 fly in formation "chaperoning" sach other. This procedure gives them the added I18tety factor of quick.r help should one plane be forced down. By leavine in mid "uly and planning completion of the 'flight for the end of August, the pilots are assured of the most favorable wsather conditions possi!>le along the entire route. They antioipate strong tail winde on all their hops which can increase their potential cruising range to as much as 3000 mile Wasp. in the New. (cont. from page 11) expert flyer, mske herself who wents to shows, where see eirplane but look learn there recee for her flyin~ stunt, she dresses up to like a very prissy, nosey little woman to fly. The stunt takes place at eir are hundreds of people who have come to and other flirshow evente

The lett hand doesn't know what the right is doing, says Ann, for it's kep busy at the throttle beside the seat, which regulates up-and-down motion. When helicopters start flying airmail from post office to airport there will be jobs available for women pilots. Before land ing in IlJl airport Ann speak. through microphones to the traffic control tower.

Ko one suspects the frowsily-dressed woman who goes up to one of the Piper Cubs with ~ book in her hend and over the loudspeeker, the announcer ssys that she has bought a book cslled "How to Fly" end wants to leern. She climbs v'.'ryawkwardly into the riper Cub, '3nd resding the book carefully, she begins her lesson Of course, by this tUne the spectators are terribly worried No one cen learn to fly by reading B bookl "But she turns the plene [lround and begins to taxi down the runway Suddenly the plune lifts one wheel, end the wings tip to O:1a side Then tha plane rides on the other wheel, encl the wings tip the other way And then, slowly, the tail lifts off tile ground and the plene proce",ds down toe runway with its tail straight out bellind it lAnd all of a sudden, the plane storts to climb into the air, aL~ost streight up, instead of Aliding easily off the ground the way a well-behaved plane should do Gnce in the sir, tile plane climbs and dives in a very crazy fashi~n indeed, ~d the BDnouncer jwnps about helplessly tearing his hair, end telling the WOlDan in the plane over the loudspeeker to turn to the next che;>ter l.nd the people on the ground are com"l",tely horrified when the book sudLlenly cornea flying out of the cockpit I'ell, after much looping end lopsided diving, the plane finally lands almost on ita backl And the battered, dizzy pupil climbs out of it, to the loud relief of the audience Cf course, she's Dorothy Swain, end efter 11:nping \I;> to the microphone, she suddenly erins merrily and reveals herself as the remarkable w:)men pilot she really isl Anoth~r former ~ASP who ia instructi~g GI's under the Bill of Righta is Honnie Horton Nonnie is a tiny little blonde, the kind of a blonde that is followed by loud .histles, and she has more energy than any fourteen people She holds every flying rating there is, except s transport pilot's rating, and she doesn't want that, or She'd have it, I'm sure She hes a flying instr'lctore rating, a single and multiple engine, lend and aea rating, and an in~trument flying rating ~;he teuGht senior high achool in New York City to pay for the flying leesons ~hen she first took up flying Jut She doean't look older than s high school kid herself Then she joined the ~ASPe and went to Sweetweter, Texas .She spent two yeare in the WASPs, p,.rtly at the ~\ercede Army hir Field in riverside, Celifornis, where she was a staff pilot M~' hair begen to raise, though, when I learned that she had towed targets on strafing missionsl lnegine a WOC3n flying a plene and towing a target while anti-eir craft gunners practiced shooting at it with live B:ClIIlunition. I Nonnie told me that now she's going to fly booby eggs to New York from the "ritlsh ;t,'estndies She says they're I good to eat and that a great csny people consider them a great delicacy A yo~ne flyer, it seems, found them on the island of Ja:naica, and he decided to bring theI:lto 11ew York for the e;ourmets l.nd if you're wonder ing whst boobies arlO, they're "est Indian biTds rather like pen~ina." Nonnle is e cover girl on the la test issue of Skywaye magazine, and there's a big story abcut her on the inside and 1n October, there's to be another story about Dottie Swain and her Cub act, so keep your eyes open and the price of s Skyways hendy.

WASP IN AFRICA (cont. from page 7) was delightful. A private room, private nurse and a native attendant. Thay insisted, though, on serving cold meat and chesse for breakfast. I still can't get over thet. As soon as the baby was a couple of months old, we took off in our car 100 milss into the jungle to a house we rented in the mountains to get away from the heat. We took the baby and a oative boy, our cook, in cese we had any trouble, end thought, "At last, we'll roueh it on our OIOn." But when we reached the settlement we found to our diegust thet it was just ae civilized as Leopoldville and our house very modern and filled with servants. A beeutiful spot, however. After a year of this extremely ruggss existence, we took a trip to Europe, stopping for two weeks in Portugal, staying at Estoril, a perfectly marvelous shore resort outside Lisbon.' A 11 in all it was a most interesting experience and no" that I am abou t to have aro'her baby and have to manege our house and daughter, how I long for just one of those Congo house boys--but then, there's .till no plece like the goOd old U.S.A. 1 ---Mary Wa ters de Lest, 44-3

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more Wasps in the Ne Margaret M. Hurlburt

The following bit of information we lifte~right out of the publication at the Texas chapter, "The Sandstorm". The girls have a very liTely aDd informative little sheet, and the Newsletter will be glad to steal articles from it whenever a COP7 talls into your Editor's lazy hands. Credit "The Sandstorm"

with the Midget in Michigan. The builder was way behind schedule and IlOthiog hed been done toward covering it. Two of Marge'. friends who had been very interested in it from the beglImine; offered the ir services and the three of them moved to Battle Creek, Michigan where it was being built. One ot the girl. being proficient in the Aircraft Covering gae lIupervised and the three of them covered the Midget. Much wae etill left to do, but only that which a builder could manage. The three had worked out a formatioD trio in Cubs and things were looking very good for the future. Marge had contaete4 the Tigers Air Show and contracted to do an acrobatic act in an AT-&,--her first performance date wae July 4 During the act, she waa killed. Marge was convinced that there are plenty of good women pilots in this country. She strived constantly to prove that women have a place in aviation. Her gallant and courageous spirit should serve as fine inspiration to us all. --Margo Logan and Duke Caldwell to get the in time to

The June issue of Holland's mazazine contains a very interesting article "Women Spread Their Wings" by Margueritte Shelburne. She tells of the achievements of Edna Gardner Whyte, who many of you met in San Antonio. Also a brief synops18 of 80me of Hazel Raines experiences in England, ae well as a thumb nail sketch of Janet Hargrave, 445, Mrs. Dot Lemon of Oklahoma City, a 99'er, Rubye Thompeon of Dallas, a 99'er, Nina Kathryn (Cappy) Morrison, 44-10, as well as Blynche Noye. and others. It is an interesting article and would probably be enjoyed by all WASPs. Mardo C~~e, 44-1, had a very interesting column in the July 10 issue or Aviation News Beacon. Mardo told how Roy Ro.enberg, editor of the Sacramento Union has been publicly expressing hllnselt as understanding end appreciating the part the WASP organization played at a tllne "hen they were needed during the war. She said, "Roy Rosemberg, editor of the Sacremento Union, is one of the most sincere boosters of aviation that you'll meet. And without doubt, he is the best champion of wOOlen in aviation there is! He has the courage of his convictions, too. Recently, over a Sacramento radio broadcast, he stuck his neck out to dec lure that after investigation, he was convinced that the main cause of the ~ASPs not getting the army standing to which they ware entitled was pure, unadulteratad male jealousyl And he hasn't just recently been enlightened llOmen did ei ther. Right after I'{ASPdeactivation on the front page of the Inglewood Daily of which editor, with a scathing criticism of the leck of the girls hsd been accorded. Roy talked to both and RASPs and he knew what really went on. as to what he came out he was then appreciation legislators

(DukIl and Marge write that they ere trying Midget Racer--the Hurlburt Hurrican--finished race at the Nationals this year.)

IN MEMORIAM W.'ve lost another WASP. Those who knew Marge Hurlburt, 43-&, remember a hearty, capable pilot, a loyal friend. Marge was onE" of the few gals who up and did things in aviation which all of us have longed to do at one time or another. She started instructing some time after deactivation: she persuaded the operator for whom she worked to help her out with the/entry fee for the Ralle Trophy race, and with the AT-6 she flew. And she justified every hope by coming out i~ the lead. Marge was not one to rest on her leurels. Rav mg started in the racing game, she persisted, through weather, engine trouble in her clipped wing Corsair, and the complex rules of the FAI, until she sliced several miles per hour off the women's speed record. Marge wanted to sive to aviation. Following the game, she was demonstrating low altitude acrobatics when she gave her life. Some will say sha died doing what she wanted, but ~lere's more to it than that. Merge wanted aviation to get aheed, and she wanted women, especially ~SPs, to move ahead in aviation It's up to every one of us to try to fill part of the gap she leaves by doing something more every day to help aviation and to help each other. --Peg Helburn, 43-6

If anyuung is ever done to give these women the recognition they should be given, it will be proposed and carried out by men like Roy Rosenberg. Many more men, who for one reason or another didn't speak out before, are now realizing that they should have, nnd except in a few isolated cases, AAF officers and men are now applauding these women pilots.

She also suggested that every ~ASP who reads thie should sit down and write Roy Rosenberg a warm letter of thanks.

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Sylvia Barter, 43-7, sends us the following poem, saying, "I dreamed this up one night. My husband likes it, so you may also." Most all of us have at some time or other directed a thought such ae Sylvia describes to same plene overhead. To all those Can faintly A silent From ships whose o'er night's distant hums

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*****

THOUGffi' YOU'D LIn: 'roKNOW Mary Ruth Ranoe, 43-6, has returned to California where she has become active with the Los Angeles Chepter. Mary is holding down a man-sized job with Lederle Laboratories, the same company she was with in New York. Mardo Crane, 44-1, and Kay Van Boozer, E.O., have just completed a flying tour of the entire state of California. They interviewed prominent aviation figuree and addressed aviation gatherings. all along the way--Mardo speaking in behalf of a atate wanen's aviation councilor congress, and Kay in behalf of the state supported eviation training program in the secondary schoole. Irene Crum, 44-6, garnered some publicity in Fred Beck'. coJ.UII.D the Farmers Market in the Los Anseles Times. for l'Ie uat. from the issue of July 29: toWew11l now explain q to you about Miss Crum. During the war Mise Crum was a lU.SP. She happens to hold the U.S. high alt1tude record for women, having flown higher, in her time, than any other woman in the country. Mias Crum is also an expert at instrument flying, and she has been called to Brazil where she has been instructing Brazil1an flyers. Before leaving she made arrangements with her old friends, Robert and Melba Larson. (The Larsons operate the Brazil Shop in Farmers Market.) Miss Crum haa done some buying in Brazil, and her purchases are now on resale at the Farmers Market. Principal items among Mias Crum's buys seam to be a fancy bottle stopper whittled out o~ a Brazil Nut. Also a THING called a Brazilian Balance. The ~razil nut, which has been shelled, hss been whittled into the shape of a toucan. Chemically treated and hardened, it would pess for ivory, but we wouldn't fool you. The toucan, mounted on a cork, is ~2.l9 - and Life Can be Beautiful, too, without the Brazilian Bal~ncer, which wa won't evan describe." HOW'S THAT FOR VIAS?PUBLICITYll Beverly Beesemyer, 44-6, left her beach home in santa Monics, California to spend a month visiting friends in Miami, Oklahoma, --to get in condition for the reunion, no doubt. Emmy Drummond and Mary Burke, both 43-7, have takan a cottage at Balboa, California, for the month of August, and are holding open house on the beech Sunday, August 17, tor all llASPs of the Los Angeles Chapter. Lilliam M. Glezen, 44-9, has wandered a long way fnom the home next and is now with the Cll in Selt Laka, Utah. She drove back to Texas the first of May to pick up her new Chrysler Convertible, and says her personality hae improved 100% since obtaining it. Lillian reports that Dorothy Bancroft, 44-6, Charlotte Mitchell, 43T5, and Marge Redding, 44-3, are also in Salt Lake. Dorothy and Charlotte are working with ATe there and Marge is stationed at Fairfield, about 40 miles south. Helen E. Johnson, 44-9, has given up her job at an airport in El Paso to return to her home et Route 1, Box 446, Washougal, Washington. Helen was formerly with the Red Cross in Englanll.. About two weeks ago, your editor hied herself up to WESTCHES~ COtnfrY airport to see if she could get e light plene up and around the pattern without being grounded as a menance to aviation. After an hour's uncoordinated wallowing over the sky and a tail-firet landing that would have been the nuts aboard an air-oraft carrier, she wes trying to slip inconspicuously off the field When she saw a blue cap bobbing around on the horizon that brought her up short. The cap was of a blue and of a design that wee peculier to a certain group of outstanding women flyers (most of them were outstsnding flyers) affiliated with ths Air Corps dur1ng WW II. She made a bee or WASP line (eorry, couldn't resist the attempt at a funny) for said headpiece snd discovered res1ding thers under one Mary Lincoln Heckman, one of her OOOOOOOLE buddies of 44-2. Atter an affectionate greeting, voiced mostly 1n terms of "ole bag" and "you ole thing", Minkie gave with a ride 1n her new second hand convertible back to Laro1lllant, !linkie' shane, and the gals held forth tor hours out Avenger days and the fine people o they knew there. Minki. 1s still working near her home town as a baoterieelagy lab assistant and is flying with the CAP.

THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW Ana "RooneT" Atkinson, 44-10, 18 now a staft member of .,.heort Warth-Tarrant County Tuberculosis Society, and will F ,erv. as health eduoator, working principally w1th the school bealth education oommittee. Ann has just completed an intens1ve tra1ning course with the Nat10nal Tuberoulosis Assooiation in New York. While there she ran into Margaret Chamberlain, 44-3, one n1ght in a 5'&. 10 store on Times Square. Dorlll Gee, 44-2, was with her. Margaret 1s work1ng for an oversess air freight caIlPany that 111based in NY. Ann spent Easter with Suzie Bane, 44-10, and a1 so sttended a New York lJASP Ohapter meeting. Janet Lee Hutchinson Simpson, 44-&, 1s now on the radio w1th her father. The o show 1s called World Tours, and they are hoping to soon get a national hook-up. At present, they ere broadcasting fran Baltimore. Stariie Grona, 44-3, 1s up from a recent 1llness. The burns of Ola Rexroat, 44-7, are healing nicely. Skipper Saunders, 44-2, is still down in the Rio Grande Valley working on the Fliers Association and selling airplanes. AIR DAY IN TEXAS WILL BE IELD AT HARLINGEN IN OCTOBER. Mollies Presseiaen Silli ,44-2, writes that her new eddress is 601 West 4th Street, Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Her husband is working as an A&Y- at the John Brown University Airport. She sdds that any WASPs dropping by are walcome to RON at har apartment. Kay Kleinecke , 44-9, is home from Ca11fornia U for the
summer.

We hear that Helen Johnson 'o\lleeler, former i'.'ASP a instructor at Houston, is making preparations to enter the Netional ~_irRacas at Clevel:md this year. Emily Chapin, 44-10, ia now in business With a partner, making miniaturas and diminutive decorations. She started her new work this spring and says she's terribly busy, handmaking and selling the products by me 11.. Juat the two are doing all the work. It's a far cry from aviation, she writes, but great fun. Below-1s a sample of her work as shown in an ad currently running 1n House Beautiful.

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Carolyn Cullen, 44-6, eends word that ehe's just started operating the Trade Wind Flying Service at Oak Bluffs Airport, Oak Bluffs, ~assachusetts. It's on ~~rtha's Vineyard and ahe says that any and all transient WASPs will be :nore than welcome. She's erected a large {(uonset hut on the field and has plenty of extra bunks. There is fine swi~ing close by snd a golf course end tennis courts adjoin the field. It's a dandy place for a week or weck-end, says Carolyn, and it certainly sounds so. To top it all off, Carolyn adds that any gals who are low on racent flyin~ time can fly her tired old Cub for what it costs to operate it. Gene Landman has received word that Anne Barthoff Rawlings, 44-1, is now with her husband, Capt. ~awlings, at 7urstenfeldbruck Army hir.Bs.se near Munich, Genmny. She Joined her husband there lest January. Capt. Rawlings mother writes that her son is quite pleaaed to have soloed an A-26 recsntly and now taels equal to Ann in flying ability. She flew an A-26 at Great Bend, Kanaaa wherA they both were sta\10ned. Dodie Aspell, 43-8, has taken a job with North American ~viation in Inglewood, California where she is working on the

LOS ANGELES CHAPTER in that oity to provide hospitality and entertainment. The L .1. Chap tar Joined otbllraviation groups for Display of ex-WASPs photographs was discussed and axlO its .TuneMeeting. The ocoaaion
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NAJ.Ladiea' Night photographs are being requested from those ex-WASPs who are A largs doing interesting things in aviation. The possibilities of holding a Radio Forum either at

program, held on .Tune 211 at l!:atons Cienega. La

crowd attended, eaw some excellent movies on GCA, and hesrd talks by several women. By far the most entertaining and Poncs City or en route to Cleveland from Ponca aboard an enlightening talk of the evening own Dodie Aapell.
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the one given by our airliner were discua.ed. Work is being done along the lines of getting aR airline company to donate the use of plane

Dodie, replete with fancy new hair-do, and of finding girla to appear on a program. As an alter-

really made a good impression for us - in more ways than onel nate, .it wae suggasted that the program might be done out On .Tuly 24, the Chapter had a business meeting at the of New York en route to Cleveland, if the airline ps.ple home of Liz Watson. _~ong other things, the group 1) laid and radio people fine that more favorable. plans for an Umnediate invasion of Clover Field to see aTwelve Pipar Cubs are in Ponca City to be ferrlsd East bout a headquarters and/or club room; 2) discussed the forthby attending WASBS and it is hoped that this method of transcaning reunion at Ponca City, and endeavored to work up porting 24 girls frcm PC to Claveland will induce more girls transportation groups; and 3) voted on scme controversial to sign up and attend the PC meeting. points in the national By-Laws. Tha By-Laws questions will Present at the meating were Bstty Pettit, Bernice Falk, be put to a written vote of tha entire Chaptar membership, Gloria Heath, Lauretta Darcy, Suzanne Bane, Gene Landman, and if passed, will then be presented to National. Before Clara Jo Stember, Anne Berry, Joan Michaels, Betty Williams, this is done, however, the L. A. Chaptar would like to hear Doris Gee, Jerry Williamson, Peg Helburn Kocher, and Virginia from any of the other chapters who have discuesed the NatCoakley. ional By-Laws. don't have to. No aense in getting our wires crossed if we (Address communications concerning By-Lew. ** . MR. STORK'S AND CUPID'S LOGBOOK Either WASPs aren't getting married and/or having babies these days or they aren't letting anybody, meaning the Kewsletter, know about it. have~ Mary Quist, 44-7, is getting married the latter part of August. Hslsn ~Casey" Johnson, 44-9, is now ldrs. Robert Orman Cannon, Jr. Her husband is manager of the Last Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. Robert Orman Cannon III was born April 4, 1947. Freddie McAfee, 43-3, is married to A. P. Richardson and has a son, Steven, born November 28, 19411. steve, says she, is all boy, and at 7 months they can't keep him off his feet. Freddie says her flying is a thing of the past, aince she left the WASPs with bad ears and is grounded--but since her husband is a landscape architect, the ground is her big interest now, anyway. Her new address is 33 South Brosd st., Litiz, Pa. Eleanor Patterson Brady, 44-2, Miltonvale, Kansss, writes thet she sent us this news some time ago but it must have been lost in the ahuffle of changing editors. She wants everyone to know about her little girl, Ruth Frances, born last February 3. Sorry this wonderful news was so long in reaching print, Eleanor. Martha L.o Smith, 43-6, is being married to Hugh Bullock, of Atlanta, Ga. on August 14. A clsver little announcement tells us that a new pilot. Rinde Gayle, arrived 04:00, July 19 at the Twito "heir" port. Flight dispatchsrs, Margar~t Ihlers and lI'ayn8 Twito. Margaret was in 44-2. Hare's all the info we

to Catherine Murphy, 7311 S.Gramercy Drive, L.A. 5.) The L. A. Chapter recently lost its super-Secretary, Jane Scott. Jane found it necessary to resign because of We were IIOrryto

pressure of time and lack of facilities.

lose Jane, but are extremely fortunate in acquiring another super-Secretary in the person of Eileen l'Tright. Eileen has taken over a big Job, snd is right in there pitching. mighty glad to have her. We're

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NE"YORKCHAPl'ER An infornal business meeting of the New York Ch~ter was called for July 29 by the National Presidsnt, Betty Williams, for the purpose of discussing plans and projects for the .forthooming reunion. In the absence of Betty Haas, Nsw York Chapter president, Who is in Europe, the meeting proceeded in an open forum fashion, with Betty Williams end Gene Landmen taking turns in discussing what is being planned for the reunion. Emphssis was plaoed on the importance of getting a good representation at Ponoa City, espeoially in view of the vast amount of work done by various Civic Organizations