CAPE TO LONDON.
LADY BAILEY’S FLIGHT. PARIS REACHED. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—copyright.) (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 7. Lady Bailey, who last year flew alone from London to the Cape in a single-seater light plane, 'reached Paris yesterday on her return flight. On her outward journey her plane was wrecked at Nairobi, and that in which she is now flying is one which was sent out to Kenya Colony to replace it. Lady Bailey has made no attempt to lower records, and apart from a desire to see Africa thoroughly from the air, her only purpose was to demonstrate the utility and safety of the light plane as a means of transit, even over long distances.
Before Anally setting off on her homeward journey she made extensive tours in Africa. She left Pretoria at the end of September, and travelled by the West African route, via Kano, Bamalo, Daka, Casablanca and the Straits of Gibraltar.
Lady Bailey was unable to proceed to London to-day, owing to fog.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17605, 9 January 1929, Page 7
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