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MRS KIRBY-GREEN PROTESTS. ROYAL AERO CLUB. FLIGHT TO CAPETOWN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received December 6, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 5. Alls Kirbv-Green, who accompanied Flying-Officer A. E. Clouston on bis record flight to the Cape and back, complains she has received no recognition by the Royal Aero Club for her share of the flight, during half of which, she says, she" piloted the ’plane.
The secretary says the club can recognise only Mr Clouston, who took off and made the landings. “As far as we are concerned, Mrs Kirby-Green was a passenger,” he said.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 7, 6 December 1937, Page 7
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98NO RECOGNITION Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 7, 6 December 1937, Page 7
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