AIR LINER

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 205, 28 July 1928, Page 9

AIR LINER

LADY HEATH AS PILOT. CONTRACT WITH DUTCH. LONG FLIGHT CONTEMPLATED. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received July 28, 11.5 a.m. » RUGBY, July 27. Lady Heath, tho well-known British airwoman, arrived at Croydon Aerodrome to-day in tho cockpit of the Fokker-Jupiter 15 passenger Dutch air liner. Lady Heath has entered into contract with tho Royal Dutch Air Lines iu order to obtain experience of largo mul-tiple-engined machines. Although Lady Heath was nominally the second pilot on to-day’s trip, it is understood that she took charge throughout the journey from Amsterdam. It was her third day with a passenger machine. She flew from Amsterdam to Paris on Wednesday and to Brussels yesterday. She returned to Amsterdam from Croydon later to-day, and on Monday she expects to fly to Zurich. Her purpose is to obtain experience prior to a 20,000 mile flight in the autumn from Holland to Batavia and back. The Dutch are sending out four air liners to inaugurate an air sendee over that route and Lady Heath is going as pilot of the fifth machine, a Fokker with three Arm-strong-Siddeley engines, in which General Snyder, the distinguished Dutch soldier, will he among the passengers. Lady’s Heath’s previous air experience has been mainly with light machines, in which she has made many notable flights.