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...quest of adventure, two blithe British women took off last week. One, Lady Mary Bailey, with a mad flourish of acrobatics, hopped across Europe on her lonesome way to Cape Town, Africa. The other, the Hon. Elsie Mackay, madcap daughter of James Lyle Mackay, Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver, muffled herself almost beyond recognition and stealthily departed with one-eyed Capt. Walter G. R. Hinch-liffe on the treacherous flight across the Atlantic, Westward...
Lady Mary is, blithe and blither, on her way. Miss Mackay, with Capt. Hinchliffe and their golden-winged monoplane Endeavor, is in the limbo of the lost...
...Elsie Mackay, 34, daughter of a peer, has done daring things since childhood. Unimpressed by her father's millions (Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Co.), she eloped with Capt. Dennis Wyndham (before the War, an actor) and laughed at disinheritance. She went on the stage herself and on the screen, as Poppy Wyndham. Suddenly she had her marriage annuled and returned to her father's home. As suddenly she took up flying, won her pilot's license five years ago, and nourished the determination to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic...
Dark, not unattractive, graceful, habitually well-gowned and bejeweled, Miss Mackay was the envy of most women. Her silver Rolls-Royce flashed by at breakneck speed. Her horses invariably galloped. She even participated in an "outside loop," most dangerous of all stunts in air, with Capt. E. C. D. Herne as her pilot. (Her safety-strap broke during the loop, but she clung with amazing wit and courage to bracing wires, while her body swung outside the plane like a stone twirled on the end of a piece of string.) She was fond of animals, particularly horses and dogs...
Yesterday the Travelair Plane was taken from its winter quarters in the Gordon Mackay Laboratory to be finally overhauled and inspected at the airport in preparation for its initial flight of the season tomorrow. The test flight will be conducted by C. A. Snow...