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Aviation Facts

Joyce Bond
Joyce Bond, the Reginan who became the first woman
parachutist in Western Canada, died Feb. 7 in California. Father of Aviation –
According to No Place For A Lady, Shirley Render's book on In 1799, English aviator George Cayley (1773–1857) built
Canada's "female aviators", Joyce gained Canadian private the first glider that could go short distances. His early
pilot's licence No. 1092 in December 1936, "and then work helped inventors understand the dynamics of flight,
sought new challenges". She turned to parachuting and the Wright Brothers acknowledged his importance.
because "that seemed to be the ultimate adventure".

Instruction was through the Regina Flying Club. No Place
For a Lady suggests it was sketchy by today's standards,
consisting of lectures -- then going up in airplanes to watch
others jump. On Sept. 25, 1937, the RFC's chief instructor,
Jack Hames, bundled her into the back of a Fleet biplane First Successful Flight -
and took her over the city for her first and only jump. The Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur Wright)
"HALF-MILE JUMP FOR REGINA GIRL" said the next day's invented and flew the first airplane in 1903. It is
Leader-Post. considered the world’s first “sustained and controlled
heavier-than-air powered flight.” Their aircraft, the Wright

Flyer, flew about 120 feet. Today, the newest Boeing 787
can fly 10,000 miles on a single tank of gas.

Internet and Online Check-In –
The internet and on-line check-in was first introduced
by Alaska Airlines in 1999.

"She loved to do something different," said her sister-in-
law, Betty Thatcher. "Her parents apparently didn't know
she was going to do this." On each side of the plane is an aileron,
which makes the plane turn right or left.
Although Joyce never jumped again, she took aerobatic
instruction in Vancouver in 1938 and tried to enlist in the ABOUT one in five people have some fear of flying or
aviophobia.
wartime air forces of Canada and China (which was
advertising for foreign pilots to help fight off Japanese
invaders). She then moved from Regina to Hamilton,
landing a job at the little-known factory there building
Piper Cub aircraft. She worked in the office and logged a
little flight time ferrying aircraft and even dropping leaflets
For mild aviophobia experts recommend staying hydrated
promoting war bonds. and avoiding alcohol, tea and coffee during a flight. They
In 1944, knowing that thousands of more experienced also advise deep, slow breathing to help relaxation and to
military airmen would be coming back, she came home and introduce more oxygen into the body. For more severe
took a job at what became Simpson's department store. In cases, where the panic begins hours or days before a flight
1952, she emigrated to California. She died Feb. 7, 1999, in and can even lead to avoiding flying altogether,
Los Altos, a suburb of San Francisco. hypnotherapy or special flight courses have been known
to help.