Blanche Stuart Scott
Blanche Stuart Scott (born April 8, 1889 in Rochester , New York , † January 12, 1970 ) was the first American to fly an airplane .
biography
Beginnings
Blanche Stuart Scott was born on April 8, 1884 to Belle and John Scott in Rochester, New York . Her father was a successful businessman who manufactured and sold so-called patent medicine . Scott got enthusiastic about automobiles early on. When her father bought a car, Scott drove it on the road too, as there were no age requirements for driving an automobile at the time. In 1900 the family lived at 116 Weld Avenue in Rochester. Scott was considered a tomboy , that is, a boyish girl, and was therefore sent to a girls' boarding school by her family .
In 1910, Scott was the second woman, after Alice Huyler Ramsey , to drive an automobile across the United States; she was the first to do this west of New York City to San Francisco . The trip was sponsored by the automobile manufacturer Willys-Overland , so her car was also called "Lady Overland". Scott and her passenger, a reporter named Gertrude Buffington Phillips, left New York on May 16, 1910 and reached San Francisco on July 23, 1910. The New York Times wrote on May 17, 1910:
Miss Scott, with Miss Phillips as the only companion, sets off on a long drive with the aim of proving that a woman is able to drive a motorized vehicle overland and make all necessary repairs on the way. Miss Blanche Stuart Scott began her transcontinental journey yesterday in an Overland automobile that will end in San Francisco.
Aviation services
The promotion for her automobile ride brought her to the attention of Jerome Fanciulli and Glenn Curtiss , who agreed to give her flight lessons in Hammondsport, New York . She was the only woman who took flying lessons with Curtiss herself. He throttled the throttle on Scott's plane so that it couldn't get enough speed to take off when she was behind the wheel. One day in September either the throttling failed or a gust of wind caught the biplane , at any rate it took off to a height of 12 m (40 feet) before making a soft landing. The flight was short and possibly unplanned, but Scott is listed by the Early Birds of Aviation website as the first woman to pilot an airplane herself, even though the Aeronautical Society of America at the time stopped Bessica Medlar Raiche's flight on May 16. September as the first woman accredited.
Scott eventually became a professional pilot. On October 24, 1910, she made her first appearance as a member of Curtiss' team at an air show in Fort Wayne , Indiana. This made her the first woman to fly an airplane at a public event. Her performances at air shows earned her the name Tomboy of the Air . She became an accomplished stunt pilot, known for flying upside down or performing so-called " death dives ", in which she fell from a height of 1.2 km and then pulled back up 60 m from the ground. In 1911, she became the first woman to make a long-haul flight when she flew 60 miles from Mineaola , New York. Glenn Martin signed her in 1912, with whom she became the first female test pilot as she piloted Martin's prototypes before the blueprints for the plane were completed. In 1913 she became a member of another air show team. She retired from flying in 1916 because she was bothered by how much the public cared about crashes, and that the aviation industry offered women no opportunities to become mechanics or technicians.
Screenwriter and work in the museum
In the 1930s, Scott wrote screenplays for RKO , Universal Studios and Warner Brothers in Hollywood , California . She also wrote and produced radio shows that aired in Rochester and California. On September 6, 1948, she was the first woman to fly as a passenger in a jet when she accompanied Chuck Yeager in a TF-80C . Since Yeager knew her past as a stunt pilot, he performed some "cracked rolls" and a dive over 4 km in the jet with her. In 1954, Scott began working at the United Air Force Museum ; there she helped to collect material on the earliest attempts at aviation.
Death and inheritance
Scott died at the age of 84 on January 12, 1970 in her home town of Rochester, her body was cremated in Mount Hope Cemetery . She was buried in Rochester's Riverside Cemetery. On December 30, 1980, the United States Postal Service issued an airmail postage stamp in honor of her accomplishments in the aviation industry. In 2005 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Blanche Stuart Scott (1889-1970), Pioneer Aviatrix. Retrieved March 12, 2019 (Scott's first flight was sometime between September 2 and 6, but the exact date cannot be determined. Sources vary.).
- ↑ Blanche Stuart Scott. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
- ↑ torn roll - English translation - Linguee. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
- ^ Find a grave. In: findagrave.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
- ^ National Postal Museum. September 22, 2006, accessed March 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Scott, Blanche Stuart. Retrieved March 12, 2019 (American English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scott, Blanche Stuart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American female pilot, the first American woman to fly an airplane |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rochester (New York) , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1970 |
