LADY BAILEY’S 18,000-MILE FLIGHT

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6814, 18 January 1929, Page 8

LADY BAILEY’S 18,000-MILE FLIGHT

Great Reception

NUMEROUS RECORDS ESTABLISHED

British Official Wireless. RUGBY, Jan. 16,

Lady Bailey landed at Croydon this afternoon in her Do Havilancl Moth aeroplane, thus completing tue flight from London to Capetown and back. Lady Heath had been escorted from Berck. in France, where she took off, by an aeroplane of the Air Union, which had been sent specially to accompany her, owing to the bad weather conditions in the Channel. She was greeted at Croydon by a large, cheering crowd. Lady Bailey has created several new records by her flight. She is the first woman to fly from London to Capetown and back.

She has made the longest flight ever accomplished by a woman, and her 38,000 miles’ journey is the longest solo flight by either man or woman. In addition, Lady Bailey is the first woman to have flown over tho Congo and the Sahara. REALLY THERE’S NOTHING IN FLYING ! Received Thursday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 17.

Tho Royal Aeronautical Society, congratulating Lady Bailey on her record, pays a tribute to her as one of tho gallant women pioneers of aeronautics. Interviewed, she said the chief difficulty was clothes for -which there was little accommodation. She was forced to buy changes as she went. Some were distinctly queer. “In fact, 1 have reached London with the queerest collection of clothes I have ever had. Really there’s nothing in flying. There was never any question of getting lost with such excellent maps, although in large stretches of denso forest it is necessary to fly by the compass.’’

LADY HEATH TO BECOME AMERICAN, NEW YORK, Jan. 16. Lady Heath, the noted British lady aviator, announces she has applied for American citizenship, as she intends making her home in the United States. She states that she is not estranged from her husband, but the latter no longer supports her. Lady Heath declares that she does not intend renouncing her title. “British law still recognises me as a British subject. T naturally want to take the of my husband,’ 'she adds.