BRITAIN'S AIRWOMAN - Commander Pauline Gower, CBE., Commandant of Women, made her living in flying before the war. She is a daughter of Sir Robert Gower, Member of Parliament, As a girl of eighteen, she was so weak from a serious illness that doctors prescribed for her some sedentary occupation if she was to live. As soon as she was on her feet, she was at a flying school in Reading, Berks. She took all the flying licences possible and set up with an instalment-plan Spartan to give joy-rides from a field. With her partner Dorothy Spicer, she worked for various circuses, Pauline pil
BRITAIN'S AIRWOMAN - Commander Pauline Gower, CBE., Commandant of Women, made her living in flying before the war. She is a daughter of Sir Robert Gower, Member of Parliament, As a girl of eighteen, she was so weak from a serious illness that doctors prescribed for her some sedentary occupation if she was to live. As soon as she was on her feet, she was at a flying school in Reading, Berks. She took all the flying licences possible and set up with an instalment-plan Spartan to give joy-rides from a field. With her partner Dorothy Spicer, she worked for various circuses, Pauline piloting and Dorothy handling the mechanical side. She has carried as many as 33,000 passengers in a year. The girls lived in caravans and saved their money to get better and better aircraft. Now her only regret, as aircraft sweep out and in above her office to all corners of Britain is that administration chains her to her desk, except may be three times a week. Polished, capable, good-looking, Britain's airwoman has a great future in aviation Royal Air Force
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