The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-10-06
GIRL FLYER SAYS
! SHE NEVER FEELS
FEAR IN SOARING
mot a Bit Afraid" Declares
Miss Miller-Mouse Has
No Terrors, Either.
By JULIA MURDOCH.

Gibson girl. In fact--is Miss Bernetta
Miller, the Lady Bird, as she has been
nicknamed by aviation enthusiastists,
who yesterday made a Night of fifteen
minutes at College Park. II is something
unusual to hear a woman discuss, ma-
chinery. still more unusual Is II to see
tai handsome blond girl reach her
hand In among greasy bearings and
wires, and valves and wheels and
things, and discuss them in a knowing
way quite beyond the ken Of the ordi-
nary woman, but apparently as simple
a. A B to her.
Miss Miller became full-fedged
lady bird in less than four months.
She knows as much about the relative
merits OF monoplanes and biplanes as
any man bird who ever few. Yester-
day while the wind blew her blonde
around her tall, 1.-THE. and graceful fig
ure. and declared to me that through
all her experiences as an aviator. she
. had never felt one single tremor Of fear.
about the cutest thing In the way of an
aviation suit 1t has ever been my pleas
ure to see.
g She's mot 4 Bit Afraid"
First Of all. It was made from cordu-
, that exactly matched her hair. There
was a Norfolk jecket, fastened with
bronze buttons. and a pair OF trousers
which reached below her knees. where
they were met by leather puttees. 1t
was all strictly tailored and quite man.
/ nlsh. but the eternal feminine was dis
closed In the tiny v shaped opening at
the throat. from whence peeped a
dainty and lacy yoke, fastened with
pearl pin. and an amethyst necklace.
mot a bit afraid she repeated. as
College Park. while numerous specta-
tors pushed nearer to obtain a glimpse
of real girl aviator. There isn't the
slightest particle of feeling of that sort.
course. am excited when / hear OF
some terrible accident, but II one is
careful. and II the machinery works all
right. there Is as little danger as there
is IN one Of those" she said. pointing
l'-But there's always the H." I
yes, but you take the same chances
s ~asn step ,sto street. voyage or
Then I asked her II she had ever had
anv serious accidents herself.
MOT serious" was her answer,
hSSfs hS nas SoT ne PRETTY had
had once learned the rudimentary prin-
ciples, all the rest was easy"
Easy to Lose Ones Self.
Then the fair aviator told me an as
founding thing. '"UnIess you have ever
been up in the air. you haven't q shad-
ow of an idea how easy It is to lose
one'sself. You entirely forget the
points Of the compass when you are
flying. and everything below looks so
queer and strange that II is almost i'm
possible for one to fnd the way back"
MY machine is a monoplane." Miss
Miller said. ut Is a Moissant model,
and while II doesn't really belong to
While. and 4 then ei I shall christen It. I
haven't named II yet, but I have a
name all picked out for It, and will
have something. to be proud Of when H.
is really mine
that Miss Miller has been lady hi;d,
she has made SO many flights into the
blue that she has ceased to keep count
OF them she Y the only Am lei wo,
Club of America. and she Is tire mend
ously proud of this little leath er-cov-
cred book. which doesn't in tie least
ana much BY s snE L Eh' Sere
. little space In the book Where the
picture of the owner is placed and It is
all bound in dark blue leather. and let
Willie pursuing her practice at College
Park. Miss Miller will maze her home
near the aviation field. She likes to take
her flights early In the U.orning. before
the sun has arisen, ana. late at night.
ly. She frankly admit that she Is in
the flying business for the money she
makes out Of 1t.
Doesn't Fear Mice, Either.
IT was a self-yI Importing girl, any
way" argues Mis- Miller, land when
! discovered that, there was more money
20 be made In n ying than In any other
work that Woman could do de-
termined to SCI, II couldn't become an
aviator. w,nt to Miss Quimby, but
received little encouragement from her,
but q number Of friends said they would
do all they could for me. and as a re-
suit, I entered the training school at
Hempstea d Plains, near Garden City,
last June. 1t wasn't any time at all
before J had passed the preliminaries,
and and Tas proud FRI WIN made my
II any one imagines that It requires a
girl Ut the masculine. suffragette type
to az SO daring a thing as ride through
~. air, let him or her disabuse his mind
Charming and feminine in every particu.
Jar, She has no radical views on suf-
frage or any Of the other questions
that are disturbing the minds Of many
women. She says she doesn't see why
women shouldn't vote II they want to,
and she also makes the proud boast
that she is one of the very few women
who isn't afraid OF a mouse.
Three flights were made at College
Park yesterday, two by J. Harold Kant
ner and one by Miss Miller. In the Mois-
ant ponoplane. More than three hun
- Ns... sl.A plA. 80
see the aviators.
Kantner climbed up eight hundred
feet and sailed over the aviation field
half a dozen times: Miss Miller at
tempted no fancy flying, but simply cir
cled the field.
Miss Miller plans to fly again tomor-
row afternoon between I aud o'clock
II the weather is permissible.