Only one year later she leaves the university, goes back to New York, and has her first flight with Frank Hawks. She later stated “as soon as I was 200 or 300 feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly.” One year later she completed her flying lessons with Neta Snook a pioneer in female aviation, who used a “Canuck” for training. Next she purchased a Kinner Airster, which she nicknames “The Canary.” Later in 1922 she set a women’s’ record of flying a plane at 14,000 feet, only a year after that record, she became the sixteenth woman to receive a pilot’s