An Ambitious Mother WANTS TO BE A PARACHUTIST: To be Britain’s first mother to adopt parachute jumping as a profession is, the ambition of Mrs. Lorna Pynsent. aged 24. of Woodstock Road. Strood. Kent. On Monday Mrs. Pynsent was taken for a stunt flight over Gravesend Airport to see if she had sufficient nerve for such a hazardous career, and. although she had only been in an aeroplane once before, she was not in the least scared. She has arranged to take parachuting lessons at Gravesend Airport with the object of becoming a qualified parachutist within a few weeks. Mrs. Pynsent is the mother of a baby boy nearly two years old.
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GRO0588 Hennock: Lorna Ruth Tasman Pynsent: 1912 – xxxx