Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-04
MISS SCOTT WILL
CONTINUE FLYING
Aviatrice. in Air When Miss
Harriet Quimby Was Killed,
Still Merry.

The following article was written by
Mics Blanche Stuart Scott. the only
surviving woman flyer in the United
states. the day after she had seen her
air eomrade. Miss Harriet Quimby fall
/ 600 feet to her death at Boston. Miss
scott was in the air when Miss Quimby
took the fatal plunge.
Nv BLANCHE STUART SCOTT.
have Just come back from Squan-
+un1 field, where I made a fight today
over the very spot where Miss Quimb%
and Mr. Willard met death last night.
feel pretty shaky, but Lam going to
stick to the game flew today simply
because wanted to show them that
woman has the same kind Of nerve
man has None of us wanted to fly
very much We all would rather havo
made this day of rest In honor of the
dead. But we thought it would give
people more confidence in the new
science if we flew.
1t was a horrible catastrophe that
can hardly get out of my mind. I was
the only one flying when Miss Quimby
got back from her flight to the Bos
ton Light AS saw her coming | was
filed with admiration for her wonder
full pluck
The fight to the Light is one of the
most dangerous undertakings. There
is no more perilous flight in this coun
try. 1t has only been done three times
before, and then by Grahame White
and Tommy Sopwith 1t is over
twenty miles of territory that is sure
death if the aviator falls II the craft
is not wrecked in the shallow water it
can only land on tiny rocky islands
that would utterly smash machine
Unaware of Tragedy.
AS l saw Miss Quimby skimming
back toward the aviation grounds I
was fervently glad that she was safe
When ] saw her circle over the safe
ground Of the field had not the slight
est doubt but that she would come
down safely did not know she would
attempt to make another circle of the
course.
When she was over the field sheNhad
her craft 5000 feet high l was only
200 feet up and I got away so that she
would have plenty of room to land her
big craft was just turning the west
ern pylon with the intention of landing
when I saw the crowd all rushing for
the gateway, It looked as If something
unusual had happened, but I supposed
that it was only the unusual interest
of the crowd in Miss Quimby's mag
nif1cent flight.
I finished my circle in order to land.
without knowing what had happened
II by any chance I had witnessed the
cata strophe l have not the slightest
doubt there would have been two ac-
cidents l am sure 1t would have un-
nerved me completely in the air.
don't think I could have stood It. Inn
agine seeing man and woman pitch
headlong out of the same kind of craft
YOU are flying?
Swoons As She Lands.
BY some uncanny flash of intuition
I seemed to know that she was dead
when | struck the ground AS was
looking at the crowd on the beach
some one rushed past and shouted,
Miss Quimby is killed" For a mo-
ment everything went black before me.
l sank back In the seat Of nv aero
plane When | came to my senses Nj.
Martin was tanning me.
Miss Quinby was one of the finest
flyers in America. She had wonderful
nerve. If her ability to handle the par
ticular craft she was flying. when she
was killed, had been equal to her nerve.
do not think that the accident would
nave caused her death. The trouble is
that she had driven the craft only four
or five times before she made the flight
to the Light.
1t was $peedier machine than she
was used to. When poor Mr. Willard :
BODY was pitched out of the craft the
balance was upset. The horror of il
must have unnerved her to such an ex-
tent that she forgot to jam her rudder
up
was the first woman in America to
drive an aeroplane and am the only
woman pilot left But am going ia
continue to fly. The game needs the
sacrifices.