LADY HEATH.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 July 1928, Page 7

LADY HEATH.

EX PER I EN’CE AS PASSKNG ER PILOT. PREPARATORY TRIP TO BATA Vi A (British Official Wire.',ess). RUGBY. .Jilly 27. Ladv Heath, the well-known British airwoman, arrived aft Croydon aerodrome to-day in the cockpit' of a. Fckker Jupiter 15-passenger Dutch air liner. She has entered into a contract with, the Royal Dutch Air Lines in order to obtain experience of large mui’.tiipile-engined machines. Although Lady Heath wa.s nominally second pilot on to-day’s tri-p, it is understood that shi? took charge throughout the journey flora. Amsterdam. It was her third day with a passenger machine. She flew from Amsterdam to Paris on Wednesday -and to Eiriissiels> yesterday. -She retail nod to Amsterdam from CroydOu biter to-day, p.ndl on Monday she expects- to fly to Zurich.

Her purpose ii? to obtain experience pror to a 20,000 mile flight-from Holland to Batavia and back in the autumn. The Dutch acre sending out four air liners to inaugurate an air service over that rouho, and Lady Heath is going as a pilot of a fifth machine, a, Fokker. with three Anm-strong-Siddeley engines, in which General! Snyder, a distinguished Dutch soldier, will be among the pas.-rengens. Lady Heath’s previous air experience lias been mainly with light machines, in which slve has made many notable flights.