LADY BAILEY
ARRIVAL AT GROYDOH FtSH Association— Bj Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 10. {l?ec-c'l \G(l <)nunary If. a* 10.-IB a.m.l Lady Bailey landed at Croydon this .afternoon. —Australian Pros Association. NI'AV KDCOIiDS CHKATLD. (Biitifcb Official Wireless.) Press Association— By Telegraph-Copyright. RUGBY, January Ki. (Received January 17, at noon.) Lady Bailey landed at Croydon this afternoon in her Do Haviland aeroplane, thus completing a night from London to Cape flown and hack. She had been escorted Irom Derek, in France, where she took off, by an aero, piano of the Air Union, which had been sent specially to accompany hoi owing to bad weather conditions in the Channel. She was greeted at Crovdon by a. large cheering crowd. Lady Bailey lias created several now records’ by her flight. She is the first woman to fly from London to Cape Town and hack. She has made the longest flight ever accomplished by a woman, and her ISJIOU-mile journey is the longest solo flight by either a man or woman. In addition she is the first woman to have flown over the Congo and the Sahara.
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Evening Star, Issue 20076, 17 January 1929, Page 12
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182LADY BAILEY Evening Star, Issue 20076, 17 January 1929, Page 12
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