Saturday, September 22, 2007

Fast Lady in Pearls - Zephirine

Racing driver and aviatrix Mary Bruce, looking sophisticated for the camera
Looking a bit more disheveled on arrival in Japan on her 1930
solo journey round the world.

How to fly a 1930s plane - note the speed required for take-off.


Read the full text of Zephirine's witty biography of the amazing Mary Bruce at Pseuds' Corner

6 comments:

file said...

this is all straight out of Dick Barton isn't it? You can almost hear the Pathe news reader...

the video is amazing, it looks so simple, even file could do that, surely!!

Zephirine said...

Just switch on, get a chap to swing the propellor, and you're away, old thing.

Apparently the landing is always the tricky bit, you notice he passes over that rather quickly...

Anonymous said...

File/Zeph

I like this combination thing you have going on between the sites, its great to have some bonus features with which to affirm the pictures that the words paint so well.
Thank you,

Anonymous said...

I can remember going to the flicks when they still showed news. Nothing as exciting as this though.
Great pics, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading about this wonderful woman.

Anonymous said...

Great photos and youtube clip - especially that voice!

Zeph and File have done us proud.

Zephirine said...

Now we all know how to fly a Tiger Moth, perhaps it's only a matter of time before Lord Ebren's Flying Circus...?