CAPE TO BRITAIN,
LADY BAILEY’S FLIGHT. ARRIVAL AT CROYDON. NEW RECORDS MADE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 16. Lady Bailey landed at Coydon this afternoon in her de Haviland Moth aeroplane, thus completing a flight from London to Capetown and back. She 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 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. Her 18,000 miles journey is the longest solo flight by either man or woman. In addition she is the first woman to have flown over the Congo and Sahara.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17613, 18 January 1929, Page 8
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