PASSENGER PILOT
LADY HEATH SECURES HER LICENSE.
** . . . (Australian Press Association —United Service.) ' LONDON, July 27. For the first- time in the history of civil aviation a woman aviator has been engaged to pilot a regular passenger air liner. Lady Heath will fly from Amsterdam to London in charge of a Royal Dutch air liner, » big twoengined Fokicer-Jupiter, to-morrow. She obtained a passenger pilot license recently, and will be accorn-na-nied, according to the- usual routine for new pilots, by a regular pilot in the cockpit. The’ plane carries a full complement of 15 -passengers. Tt< is- understood it is Lady Heath s ambition to pilot a giant Imperial -Airways triple- screw plane, the weld’s largest.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 July 1928, Page 5
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