EAST TO WEST BY AIR
ENGLISHWOMAN'S PLAN AMERICAN MACHINE (United Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, Sth March. The sensational secret attempt- of a. woman to fly tho Atlantic from east to west lias just been disclosed by the "Daily Express." The Hon. Elsie Mackay, third daughter of Lord Inchcape, is due to start at noon to-day from Cranwell aerodrome with Captain Hinchcliffe in a machine named "Adventure," which was brought specially from America. ■ • ; The machine has a cruising speed of ninety miles an hour. The course will be laid straight to Baldonnell, on tho west coast of Ireland, thence to Nowfoundland. Secret preparations have been progressing for months. Extra petrol tanks have been installed in the wings, and moro petrol will be carried in aluminium tins, thus saving two pounds and a half weight per each four-gallon tin. Miss Mackay, who is short, dark, and pretty, has had a life-full of adventure, and is an accomplished horsewoman. She was among the first women to obtain a pilot's certificate. She has1 recently been engaged in designing decorations for her father's liners.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 58, 9 March 1928, Page 9
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179EAST TO WEST BY AIR Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 58, 9 March 1928, Page 9
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