RECOGNITION CLAIMED BY AIRWOMAN
PART IN CLOUSTON’S CAPE FLIGHTS LONDON, December 5. Mrs Betty Kirby-Green, the airwoman who accompanied Flying Officer A. E. Clouston, the New Zealander, on his record-breaking flights to Cape Town and back, complains that she 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 that the club can recognize only Flying Officer Clouston, who took off and made the landings.
“As far as we are concerned Mrs Kirby-Green was a passenger,” he declared.
Mrs Kirby-Green, aged 31, is a girlishlooking brunette, who has had only 30 hours’ solo flying experience. She flew to Paris for a bet of £lOO 24 hours after taking her licence in July. She is the proprietress of a social club. On November 24 Mrs Kirby-Green told The Dally Sketch: “In May I am going to fly the Atlantic solo, and after that perhaps I will fly to Australia.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23376, 7 December 1937, Page 7
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