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June 2010 Index
Page 1    Hi-Tech Safari, The BAe Jet Explorer

Page 2    The Woopy-fly

Page 3    Page 3 Girl. Susana Ferrari Billinghurst

Page 4    Susana Billinghurst continued

Page 5    Aviation Pioneer Glenn Curtis.

Page 6    Glen Curtiss continued

Page 7    Glen Curtiss continued

Page 8    Glen Curtiss continued

Page 9    The World’s Worst Airplane
                UAV’s (Things that Fly without Pilots)

Page 10   UAV’s continued
                SwitchBlade update.

Susana Billinghurst Continued

something that anyone, from the ground, now could be allowed the luxury of giving: a "piece" of sun …
I look down. Needless gray sheet of the river takes positions the city shrouded in mist. Further, the Delta stretches his arm, and the other side of the mass of buildings extending the smooth surface of the field, whose dull green colors fade into confusing the first shadows of dusk.
A "piece of sunshine? What does he tell me the friendly pilot? From the windows of the Aero Club we have been sinking in the west after a bloody curtain of clouds. I do not think the aviators have the power to resurrect the Sun. And if so …
The bow of the device at this time, heads for the stars. To where they will soon catch on much in the stars. I realize that we are taking tall. And suddenly, the plane turns his tail to the river and the voice of my cicerone in the Milky Way, through the cable said:
"Here's my gift, a reporter incredulously.
Front of us, on the edge of the horizon burned, consumed, fantastic, the agony of the sun. Half of his huge glowing disk is visible even from up here, and our pupils reach to capture the last glow with trying to hold on to heaven before finally sinking in sinking of gold.
Susana Ferrari, in fact, has made me a wonderful present. She


gave me the sun …The "Focke Wulf" plan now on the airfield. The steady hands on the joystick, the first professional driver Argentina looking after the spectacles the signs. The visibility, given the late hour, is low.
- Landed?
"Yes.
I suspect something strange in the reply brief. Interrogated.
-It happens ...?
-Oh, nothing! I do not see the ditch ...
I'm beginning to alarm me. A few meters high, the device 1993continues to move forward without taking land. Venírsenos appear above the hangars.
- What ditch?
- A trench around here. Let's see, see? I think it's that.
Takes several seconds. The dark mass of the barns is getting closer. I look at the aviator. It has yet serene gesture. His eyes are scanning the field. At last he says:
"Now the pass ...
Earth. The wheels leave again to be useless. I see the door of a shed that is going to swallow the device ...
But do not swallow. And a minute later, while she and two mechanics push the airplane hangar inside, I'm still thinking a sunset above the clouds, a director of aeronautics who said that women do not have the power to govern airplanes and blue eyes and calm hands of Susana Ferrari, transient sky, captain of the wind, sun friend ...


http://www.aviadorabillinghurst.6te.net/cronica.htm

But Susana could not escape the prejudice of the day against female pilots. This is her account of a trip to Panama.

"Once we traveled to Panama and when we landed, back and, a mechanic told me that I was not going to let fly that was a woman. The prohibition was the Director of Civil Aeronautics, which held that women had to go to ali kitchen and laundry. "The director of the company he worked for a lot of pressure to reverse the situation, but only got to me the charge of "passenger assistant" only "Susana said bitterly, recalling that episode in his life. And with sarcasm,he added yet upset today, "I had to sit on the lap of the pilot or copilot"

In the late 1940’s Susana gave up fighting the prejudice and left aviation for good and devoted herself to her three children and twelve grandchildren. Susana died in Salta in 1999, aged 85.