Word: heaths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peculiar to large expositions was missing from Detroit's second All-American Aircraft Show last week. Several thousand sightseers and several score actual plane purchasers each day could comfortably inspect 104 plane models, exhibited by 44 oldtime and 16 freshly organized manufactories. Planes ranged from the tricky little Heath at $975, which only the best of pilots dare handle, to the $67,500 Fokker, for which, with its ornate fittings* Cadillac's President Lawrence P. Fisher just paid $75,000. In between were sturdy one and two-seater open cockpit monoplanes and biplanes. Most models, however, were "closed...
Female Pilots. Amelia Earhart last week received a license to pilot transports. Of the 40 U. S. female pilots only she, Ruth R. Nichols of Rye, N. Y., Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie of Memphis, Tenn., and Lady Mary Heath of Manhattan have transport qualifications. Only Miss Omlie seems serious in this business. She is planning a flight this year. Miss Earhart makes a gratifying income by writing on flying and appearing at aviation shows. Lady Heath also appears professionally at the shows. Recently she started a concern to import planes. Miss Nichols, rich, is now flying about...
...Hugo Eckener received the lighter-than-air trophy for his command of the Graf Zeppelin. His peer for 1927 was Lieut. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl of the U. S. S. Los Angeles. Lady Mary Bailey was the best woman flyer last year, Lady Mary Heath the next best. Each flew between London and Capetown, in opposite directions. "Best flyers" designated for various countries...
...Lady Heath, 31, last week in Manhattan, applied for her first U. S. citizenship papers. What Sir James would say about that...
...Lady Bailey flew from London to Cape Town one week faster than Lady Heath flew from Cape Town to London (TIME, April...