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To date, most of the women pilots have been used in ferry work, but other
uses are rapidly opening up for them. The accident rate among the women pilots has
been low. Not all licensed women pilots are in the WASPs yet, but most of them have
applied for admission, and many more each month are receiving their licenses through
their own efforts at civilian schools and are adding their names to the long list of
applicants.
Many of these women pilots have hundreds of hours of experience in the air.
No
one goes to a using ageney with less than 200 hours' air time, which includes two-
motor experience, night flying, and instrument flying, supplemented by many hours of
ground schooling.
I have heard much about the good work being done by the women of Australia in
the war effort and an sorry I have never been in your country. I started there once
by air, but never arrived. That was in 1934 in the MacRobertson air race from London
to Melbourne.
JACQUELINE COCHRAN
Director of Women Pilota
3 September 1943
For release to: Australian Nomen's Weekly - Sidney, Australia
The
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