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Direction: Consider text II to answer questions 05 to 08. Around the World with Barrier Breaking Women Pilots Oct 31, 2021 By Dorothy Cochrane and P. Ramirez 5 We know the names of early American women pilots like Bessie Coleman and Amelia Earhart. However, across the globe, women pilots were also taking to the skies and setting records. Travel across with these stories of two such pilots. 10 Part I Hélène Dutrieu, Belgium Hélène Dutrieu of Belgium was known as the "girl hawk" of is why, I abandoned, at the age of six, a magnificent career 15 aviation because she was the most daring and as an artist. I had been discouraged by the failure of my Drawing Number One and of my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it 15 is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations over and over again. So then I had to choose another career, and I learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown almost everywhere in the world. And, as a matter of fact, geography has been a big help to me. I could tell China from Arizona at 20 first glance, which is very useful if you get lost during the night. So I have had in the course of my life, lots of encounters with lots of serious people. I have spent lots of time with grown-ups. I have seen them at close range... which hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.” accomplished woman pilot of her time. She first soloed in France in 1909 and within a year was setting altitude and distance records. She thrilled the world in September of 1910 by flying non-stop from Ostend to Bruges, Belgium, 20 and she became the first Belgian woman to receive a pilot license on November 25, 1910. During her second year as an aviator she narrowly escaped death twice. She visited the United States in 1911, making her American debut at the Nassau Boulevard Aviation meeting. Back in Europe, 25 Dutrieu won France's Coupe Femina for the women's world nonstop light record on December 31, 1911, flying 158 miles (254 kilometers) in 178 minutes. In Florence, Italy, she was the only woman in a field of 15 and outflew all of her male competitors to win the King's Cup. In 1913 the French Source: SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine. The little Prince. New York: 30 government awarded Dutrieu the Legion of Honor for her Mariner Books, 1943. Translated from French by Richard Howard. 01 - About the career change portrayed in the text, it is possible to say that the narrator was a) aware of his piloting abilities. b) encouraged to become a pilot. c) more interested in piloting airplanes. d) talked into learning a new profession. 02 - Grown-ups are not scared of the little prince’s drawings because a) snakes and hats don’t scare them. b) they are always tougher than children. c) they lack understanding of the pictures. d) the second picture is scarier than the first one. achievements. She also became an ambulance driver and later a director of a military hospital. Part II 35 Jean Batten, New Zealand Jean Batten grew up in New Zealand and developed a love for aviation that overcame her desire to be a concert pianist. 40 Her interest in flying stemmed from the 1919 England to Australia flight by Ross and Keith Smith, and later solo flights. Batten's father did not approve of her aviation enthusiasm but she convinced her mother to move to England with her and help her become a pilot. She received 45 her license and her commercial rating at the London Aeroplane Club at Stag Lane and then began planning for a flight from England to Australia. Her first two attempts failed, but she succeeded in 1934, flying a Gipsy Moth. Batten became an instant sensation in Australia, New Zealand, and 50 in England upon her return flight the next year (it was the first roundtrip by a woman). In 1935, she broke James Mollison's records for England to Brazil and Dakar to Natal while becoming the first woman to solo across the South Atlantic. Then, in 1936, she realized her dream of flying solo 55 from England to New Zealand in a Percival Gull in 11 days and earned her second consecutive Harmon Trophy, having shared the first one in 1935 with Amelia Earhart. In 1937, she set another record for an Australia to England flight. Unable to obtain a flying job during World War II, Batten 60 gave up flying and eventually became a recluse, living with VERSÃO A 3 Direction: Read text III to answer questions 10 to 12. The world is changing Posted on April 4, 2020 by Sandy Millin The title of this week’s post is inspired by this cartoon from Michael Leunig which appeared on my Facebook stream this week: her mother in Majorca, Spain, and appearing in public only

for a few anniversary events. In 1937, she published her autobiography, My Life. Adapted from: RAMIREZ. Around the World with Barrier Breaking Women Pilots:https://airandspace.si.edu /stories/editorial/around-world-barrier-breaking-womenpilotshttps://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/around-world-barrierbreaking-women-pilots. Accessed on February 20th 2024