Aeronautics: London-to-Cape

When a man & woman make a spectacular flight together two things happen: i) the woman gets most of the publicity, and 2) whether or not she did her share of the work she is flayed for getting most of the publicity. So it was last week with Peggy Salaman, 19, attractive London debutante, and Pilot Gordon Store who set Miss Salaman's Puss Moth monoplane Good Hope down upon the new Municipal Airdrome at Cape Town, South Africa, five and one half days after leaving Lympne, Kent, England. The flight (7,000 mi.) beat by...

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