For Beginners

At Mitchel Field, L. I., a new anti-stalling device to prevent accidents to beginners who frequently come to a speedy end by turning the nose of their plane up so that the engine stalls and they go down in a tail spin, was demonstrated last week. A flyer took the air, put his plane at a dangerous angle, lifted his hands above his head, and let the automatic safety device restore the plane to an even keel.

Freak

Because of the impaired coordination of their nerves under pressure, the liability of their hearts to variation, and their general inclination toward giddiness, women seldom function as airplane pilots. Occasionally, in flying circus outfits, women have capitalized the fact that their sex is, in the air, a freak, and accepted large sums of money to perform comparatively safe flights. But never in the history of aeronautics, until last week, had a woman publicly announced that she would fly a speed plane in a great race. Miss Ruth Gillette of Los Angeles entered her Sikorsky Messenger in the "on to New York" race--the first event of the Pulitzer races to be held at Mitchel Field, L. I., next week.