On 18th August 1911, Hilda B Hewlett, a 47-year-old mother of two, became the first British woman to pass her flying test; she received pilots certificate no. 122 from the Royal Aero Club 11 days later on 29th August. Hilda's introduction to aviation came in October 1909 when she motored up to Blackpool for Britain's first international flying meeting.There she watched an aircraft take to the skies for the first time and was instantly smitten. "A great white thing was slowly pushed out of a shed, so big and strange," she wrote.
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机译：1911年8月18日，希尔达·B·休利特（Hilda B Hewlett），现年47岁，是两个孩子的母亲，成为首位通过飞行测试的英国妇女；她获得了飞行员证号。 11天后的8月29日，来自皇家航空俱乐部的122。希尔达（Hilda）于1909年10月对飞机进行介绍，当时她开车前往布莱克浦（Blackpool）参加英国的第一次国际飞行会议，在那里她看到飞机第一次飞向天空，并立即被击中。她写道：“一件很棒的白色东西被慢慢地从棚子里推出了，是如此巨大而奇怪。”
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