DARING WOMAN.
Lady Bailey Flys Alone Over Unknown Africa. SAFE ARRIVAL REPORTED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, October 5. Advice has been received in London that ■ Lady Bailey, wife of Sir Abe Bailey, has'arrived in a Moth aeroplane at Loanda, Portuguese East Africa. She left Elizabethville, in the Belgian Congo, on September 24, with the. intention of flying to England by way of 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 for ten days over West African territory, which is almost unknown from the aviation point of view. . It is one of the most hazardous flights ever undertaken by a woman. The. distance from Elizabethville to Loanda is about 1000. miles.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 9
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134DARING WOMAN. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 9
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