Judge — March 1938 — page 21: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ear err sf — eo Sees a GM her wagon down and cut the switch. I don’t know. I am always nervous when a lady is at the controls of anything that moves faster than eight miles an hour. The main difference between men and women fliers as students is that the girl students make it a personal matter and invariably fall in love with the instruc- tor. This is sometimes just dandy for the instructors, because unlike other sports to which frustrated spinsters turn, aviation has a better percentage of look. ers practicing than any other game with the possible exception of swimming. The only difference between the men phonies and the girl phonies of the air is that whereas the men phonies show up in breeches, shiny boots, helmet and goggles and a pin in the shape of a pair of wings, the girl phonies after their third lesson break out in jhodpurs, hel- met and goggles, and a breast pin in the shape of a pair of wings. Girls often go in for aviation because it is exciting and romantic. Yet once they have passed the fledgling stage, they are even more careful and exact about their maneuvers because they are much more afraid than men of what people will say if they come sailing home with a hoppity-hop, a thunderous bounce and a ground-loop right smack in front of the hangar crew. March, 1938 “LOOKS LIKE WE'LL JUST MAKE IT.” “I DOUBT THAT YOU'RE EVEN TRYING TO HIT THE BALL!” 19 comicbooks.com