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MADAME PHILLIPS, FAMOUS FLYER, ^ MAKING PLANS TO CROSS ATLANTICNew York.—I'm going to be the first woman to fly across the ocean, I hope. At any rate I’m join* to move heaven and earth to achieve this ambition.This was the declaration of Ma-(Lme Luba Phillips, picturesque Russian-American aviatrix who recently established an official altitude record tor a worflan flyer at Curtl* Field, L. I. 8he flew to a height of 10,030 feet in ajtokker monoplane elmllar to that used by Commander. Byrd in his flight to. France. *But Madame Phillips will have to hurry if she is to be the first woman to span the ocean. Already three other women have announced a similar ambition. They are;Mrs. Grace McClellan, of Austin, Texas, who is. preparing to hop over the ocean and follow the route taken by Colonel Charles A. LlndWgb. ?Frauleip Thea Raaehe. the twenty-seven year old German girl pilot who i# coming to New York to hop back 'to Europe.• Mrs. Gladys Rey. who. with Lieut. Delmar L. Snyder, is also an entrant in the -proposed New York toRome flight.‘Til show the wor! *. that a woman can fly across the ocean, Madame Phillips said in an interview with International News Service, her blue eyes- flashing. I would rather make the flight alone but conditions may ~rie« that will force me to take a navigator along. I will pilot the Plane, however.Would she be afraid — would such a stunt affect her nerves?•’Nerves? she replied. Bah! I have no nerves when.I am in the air. Really, flying is no simpleb And still there are people who will not believe that I am a real aviator. Why, I’ve been flying since 1911 and havia done dangerous flying over the Russian front during the war. Yet my ability la 'questioned by some in this country.••When I made my altitude flight recently one or two newspapers expressed skepticism. They said I didn’t' take the plane off the ground nor land it. That’s true, I took the controls, from Lieut. Stultz lifter we were up but only because he fcas responsible for the plane’s safety and would not let me take it off even thought C wanted to. X^iave often' done it.’Tin Uke Lindbergh was before he made his great flight to .ParlSt I have to fight every step of the way for recognition.Madame Phillips said that, just to prove she can fly if for no other reason.she may make a short land flight — say from New York to Chicago. She said she is now making arrangements to obtain a monoplane in which she plans to make a flight from New York to Rome.She insisted she has the courage and physical fortitude for a trans-AUahtlc flight and that she stillretains the spirit of youth *nd adventure. Asked how old she was, she replied with onaof her dealing smiles: Over twenty-five.”Thea Rasche. the German girl flyer. Is expected to arrive In the tTnite4 States by boat shortly to make arrangem nt for her proposed flight across the ocean. She is tall blonde and bobbed and baa achieved fame .abroad as a stunt flyer. Her small ^tunt plant is to be shipped to tbi« country and before making' the traps-Atlantic flight, she says, she plana ^to do some stunt flying in America-She will have a new plane built for the ocean hop. however. What type It will be she does not yet know but she intends lo visit the plane factories In the United States and select what *he thinks is the best equipment for 'he flight.Miss Gladys Roy, Cleveland girl, and her co-pilot, Lieut. SjtS'der are competitors of Lloyd W. Betraud. air mell pilot, in a New York to Paris flight. She said that Minneapolis .business r-.en are backing her flight which is to be made In a Ryan monoplane, the same type used by Llnbergb.Like Madame Phillips she Is anx-iou* to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic. She holds the high and low parachute jump records for 1«.000 and 100 feet'vespective-ly. She has been a stunt flyer and parachute jumper for five years.I hope to be the first woman to make the Atlantic flight first, she said.I've had many thrills,” she said, but I imagine a flight across tee ocean would beat them all.”
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Kokomo Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Wed, Jul 13, 1927
Page 8
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