New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-14
MISS M0|SANT A PILOT
Sister Of Dead Aviator Wins
LicerSe from the Aero Club.
WON'T BE A PROFESSIONAL
Conquered the Air N One Month,
She ssys, Despite Opposition
Of Her Family.

Hampstead, Long Island. Aug 70 fspe-
cfaD. Matlds Moisant. who deter
mined 70 conquer the air when that
treecherous elemalt sent her brother John
B. Moisant. dow TO his death. won her
pilots license TN morning before dele
cation represenu ng the Aero Club Of = mer-
lea. She is the second woman in the world
70 win that hdnor under the revised rules
John B. Mois ant was the young American
aviator who sprang into fame oy dying
from Paris &c London on his eighth ascent
from Mother Earth and won the $1,000 race
around the tatue Of Liberty last fall dur
ing the BelrI ont Park meet He was killed
in New ORLEANS on the last DAY OK 1910
while trying TO win the Micheiin prize for
the longest sustained fight during the year.
Miss Mois ant. in qualifying for her H.
cense. few monoplane Of her brothers
design, the same in which Miss Harriet
Quimby won the first license 20 be issued
TO woman ~ America. With such ease
and accuracy did she handle the machine
that her final landing called forth d spon-
taneous burrx Of applause, not the least
enthusiastic participants in which we're
Baron L. drOrcy and W. Bluet. the Aero
Club represe natives.
and with all the other scholars OF the
Moisant school and a score or more Of Wis
itors on the held before o'clock. Miss Moi
SAINT clad in oversus, cap and a coat 20
protect her from oil. climbed into the seat
Of her machine. aud, giving the signal TO
release. started OF across the field In ths
| direction OF the Long Island Motor PARK
way
~.
than eight miles an hour and the sky was
overcast. conditions Of great advantage TO
the candidate for aerial hOnors. She made
| five beautiful "eights' about seventy-ive
feet above rhe ground
Miss Motsnt then drove her monoplare
toward tht. ground 20 land within iS feet
OF a desiGla mark, which the conditions
call for She stopped her machine in di1
feet after landing. having been in the air
exactly on minutes
After am interval Of ten minutes she
again rose gracefully ard al greater att
! tude mads the second series Of FIVE eights
! with mucn skill SHE was IN the air 10
minutes AID II seconds and stopped 10 feet
! from the point at which ner mohopiah7
/ landed
! She then started ont for the altitude test.
! and not only filled bis conhlton out rose
U
/ circle made a beautiful voIplaue ana lan1-
! ed on tae ground without a jar 20 her ma
/ chine. -.
I informed she had von her license
/ 4 nave never once felt the least nervous
/ ness when dying. ana even When I began
| IN right and eff turns for the Fights
! FELT az secure as when on the ground, sns
said II was always my hope 70 ny ana
| 70 win a license ] DO not intend 10 iy AZ
- n~ofesstonaI bur had 70 CRAFTY a passion
/ 10 Nv through the air, regardless OF ths
/ opposition ex pressed by my family
/ Andre rupert SAID MIS- s,5 i'ad be-
rome a r1asuer OF the air craft within y
month and after but twenty-three lessons,
She took her first lesson on july J." a"u
/ on August Is won her license. - >,.,...
on the 18th Of next month MISS Molsaiic
will be twenty-five years old. InlrteeH o., -
my lucky number" said Miss MolrarC TO
| vent 70 Chicago yesterday dLtei ..-,,
! saa +he great meet but u1n not ny uh'''
. ber return. TWO weeks herce