is rather a feather in the caps of women that a Scots girl, in the person of the Hon. Elsie Mackay, Uhird daughter of Lord Incheape, should have recently been elected (9 the Advisory Committee of Pilots to the Air League. Miss Mackay fas had her pilot's certificate a9 long ago as 1922, when she learned to fly under the guidance of that prince of pilots, Sir Alan Cobham, at Stag Lane Acrodrome. Since then she has done a lot of flying, including solo flights, and this ap pointment is merely a just recognition of her skill as an experienced and reliable pilot. When one considers that flying is as yet still in is infancy, though within the last few years' or so it has made tremendous strides, it is a marvel that women should have dared venture within the portals of what is, at first sight, an essentially masculine career, much less achieve success at their job,
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