The Archive · 1928

Lady Heath as Air Pilot

To Assist in Flying Aic Liner in Trip to Batavia and Back London, July 27.

Interviewed by Reuter'srepresentative at Croydon on her arrival from Amsterdam as second pilot of fifteen-passenger Fokker Jupiter plane of the Royal Dutch Air Line, Lady Heath said that she had been engaged to act as second pilot of a Fokker air-liner fitted with three Armstrong-Siddeley motors which would attempt the journey from Amsterdam to Batavia and back in the autumn, to inaugurate a new service. She added that she was now intent on gaining experience on big multi-engined machines, after which she would study the nermotors at the Armstrong-Siddeley works.

Lady Heath stated that she found ig passenger ait-liners easier to fy than small machines as they are practically stable.

Later in the day Lady Heath flew back to Amsterdam sitting in the cockpit of the plane which was carrying a full load of passengers and freight—Reuter,

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