TO FLY ATLANTIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 45, 23 February 1931, Page 7

TO FLY ATLANTIC.

WOMAN PILOT'S AIM.

Mrs. Victor Bruce's Plan to Boom

British Aircraft.

COUNTERBLAST TO U.S.A.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 12 noon.) LONDON, February 22. Mrs. Victor Bruce says she has I decided to fly the Atlantic. Her | flight to -Japan was undertaken to j prove that the standard British 'plane has no superior. She wants to fly to South America as a counterblast to the extensive American sales campaign there. On her return on Friday from her 19,000-mile world flight she was escorted by 'planes piloted by Miss Amy Johnson, Miss Winifred Spooner, and Miss Delphine Reynolds. The last-named is planning a flight to the Cape. Mrs. Bruce was warmly greeted by her husband and ten-year-old son before she climbed out of the cockpit. She wore two strange decorations, one of which, the highest Japanese aviation honour, has not previously been given to a foreigner. The other was "a mil- i lion elephants and a white umbrella." the gift of the Governor of Hanoi, which entitled the Indo-Chinese in olden days to the possession of these articles. She was wearing a jumper purchased in Hongkong, a skirt from Shanghai, shoes from Vancouver, and hand-painted lingerie, the gift of Chinese ladies at Amoy. '"What impressed me throughout the journey," she said, "was that it was always full moon, owing to the fact that my daily flight was about 500 miles."