Aeronautics: Great Idea

Iconoclastic Charles Grey Grey, Britain's foremost aeronautical editor, last, week quoted a letter to London's Daily Express in his Aeroplane:

"Dear Sir:

"I am an American girl with all that capacity for original thought and creative effort which distinguishes the New World from the Old.

''I propose to fly non-stop (with a good pilot) to Cape Town. When over Victoria Falls my three darling babies, Homer, Luther and Sundae, will each make a parachute jump in honor of Queen Victoria, Dr. Livingstone and ex-Mayor James ('Washington') Walker,...

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