AVIATRIX RECORD

Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1929, Page 6

AVIATRIX RECORD

18.000 AILK FLIGHT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright'. RUGBY, Jan. 16. Lady Bailey landed at Croydon 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 tbe Air Union, which had been sent specially to accompany her, owing to the bad weather conditions in the Channel. She was greeted at Croydon by a large cheering crowd. l.ady Bailey lias 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 bv a woman, and her 18.090 miles johmey 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. •‘DIFFICULTY WITH CLOTHES.” LONDON, Jan. 17. The Royal Aeronautical Society congratulating Lady Bailey on her record, pays a tribute to her as one of the gallant women pioneers of aeronautics. When interviewed she said the chief difficulty was clothes, for which there was little accommodation. She was forced to buy changes as she went, and some were distinctly queer. “In fact, I have reached London with the queerest collection of clothes T. have ever had. Really, there’s nothing in flying. There never was any question of getting lost with such excellent maps, although in large stretches of dense forest, it is necessary to fly by compass.”..