 On 3 November, an attempt at breaking Earhart's transcontinental record failed when Nichol's aircraft skidded off the runway at Floyd Bennett Field while taxiing, went into a ground loop, and was badly damaged as the port wing dug in, although the pilot escaped injury.On 29 December, Nichols became the first woman pilot of a commercial passenger airline, flying for New York and New England Airways.In 1935, Nichols joined the British based Women's Engineering Society, at the time the only organisation in the world for women engineers and pilots.