Lady Bailey Makes Remarkable Flight

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 553, 4 January 1929, Page 9

Lady Bailey Makes Remarkable Flight

CAPE TO LONDON A PERILOUS JOURNEY (Untied P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright * (Australian and K.Z. Press Association) Reed. 12.1 p.m. LONDON, Thurs. The most remarkable flight ever made by a woman of any country will end when Lady Bailey reaches the. Stag Lane airdrome from Capetown within the next few days in her Moth Cirrus plane. Shti left Capetown on May 12. Soon alter she made a forced landing and damaged the undercarriage on a sunken road. Proceeding to Johannesburg, she remained there for some time because of Sir Abe’s illness. The Sudan authorities would not give permission for a lone woman to traverse East Africa aud the Nile, but the Belgian authorities consented that she should traverse the Congo and pursue the west coast route. She left Pretoria on September 21. For ten days there was no n€-ws, and considerable anxiety was felt. She was flying over country

unknown to aviation and regarded as dangerous even for a man. A few days later she was laid up through indisposition. On November 28 she reached Frenc h. West Africa and was held up pending permission being given for her to cross the Sahara, which permission was refused owing to the disturbed nature of the country. Finally she got permission from tha Spanish authorities and reached Rio de Oro, and thence went to Casablanca. She will fly via Spain to London.