WOMAN'S HAZARDOUS FLIGHT
LADY BAILEY EXPLORES AFRICA. (British Official Wireless). Rugby, Oct. 5. Lady Bailey, wife of Sir’Abe Bailey, tias arrived in a Moth aeroplane at Luanda, Portugese East Africa. She left Elizabethville in the Belgium Congo, on September 24, with the intention of flying to England by the west coast of Africa, since the British authorities had forbidden her to fly alone across the dangerous parts of East Africa and the Sudan.
Lady Bailey had flown 10 days over West African territory, almost unknown from the aviation point of view, one of the most hazardous flights ever undertaken by a woman. The distance from Elizabethville to Lqnnda is about J9OO miles.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1928, Page 11
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