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Another notable aviatrix was Mary Bailey. She was the daughter of Derrick Warner William Westenra (the Fifth Baron Rossmore, 1853-1921) and his English wife Mittie Naylor, 1859-1953. Mary was born on the 1st December, 1890, at Rossmore Castle, County Monaghan, Ireland. At about the age of 15 she left home and was known to be driving a car and a motorbike (it's known she was speeding in one of these). On the 5th September,1911, she married Sir Abraham Bailey (1864-1940) at the Church of Holy Trinity, in Chelsea, London. During the First World War she served as a mechanic servicing British aircraft on the Western Front. She achieved 3 aviation records in 1927 and 1928. The first was a flight on the 7th July, 1927, in a de Havilland Hermes Moth biplane, to an attitude of 17,283 feet ( the airfield was owned by de Havilland. It was in Stag Lane, Edgware). The second record was the first flight across the Irish Sea, in August 1927, which was from Chester to Dublin. Prior to her take off she put on an inflated motorbike wheel inner tube over her waist (the aircraft was a de Havilland Hermes Moth biplane). The last of these flights was between the 9th March, 1928, to the 30th April, 1928. She flew a de Havilland Cirrus Moth biplane from Croydon to Tabora, Tanginyika, where she had a crash landing. She then used a second aicraft to fly to Cape Town. This led to an awarding of a D.B.E. Mary Bailey gave birth to 5 children and her stepson, Sir John Milner Bailey wed Winston Churchill's daughter Diana. Dame Mary Bailey's death was at Kenilworth, Cape Town, on the 28th August,1960. I am genealogically linked to her.

And my mom thought the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels pilots were crazy.

Awesome vid, full of raw history .... it's just amazing what people could get away with before regulations....bring back the good ol' days.... cheers to you 🤟🎶

I've seen some of these videos before, but rarely have I seen some of these extended film sequences which make me queasy! Where the hell did all these crazy people come from? They make XGame folks look like pups!

My dad got to fly Lindbergh to Mexico in 1969 as a guest of the Bechtel corp. As a "old timey" pilot amongst scientist, they got along pretty good. Lindbergh conceded That were he to see aviation today, he would never have become an aviator due to all the regulations.

Great history video! We sure have lost that daring spirit and that sense of wonder around aviation.

I love that the Aussie brothers made sure that their mechanics gained equal notoriety and shares of the prize money.

I love this stuff !! By the way, are there any stats for how many dumbasses fell off these planes 😛

Brave soul 😂

I would love to have been around when this happened the first flights I mean

7:58 I wanna throw up thinking about swinging a golf club mid flight on the wing. ppfffft fccccck that

And these guys are wearing hard shoes, trousers, button-up shirts..

Why is the disappearance of a small aircraft over the expanse of the Pacific so unusual. Even in today's highly connected era planes with hundreds of passengers and very modern tracking and even satellite tracking can get lost between Malaysia and China. Also, why this worship of Amelia Earhart? Even this documentary pointed out men and women pilots during that era that equaled or excelled anything that she did. It is mostly the creation of fame that the press gave her that led to this elevation above peers who did equal or more. Let her rest in peace whether in the pacific or bones on an island.

First time I hear an English speaking person pronounce Norwegian names without butchering them..

(there should be a world wide network of solar chargers for electric planes )

No way this channel has 1.7M subscribers and gets the views it gets. Dishonest.

I stopped at about the 30 min point. Just some thoughts. As someone who vslues education and the earning of a degree in a useful career, Lindbergh's dropping out of college gives the wrong message. Sure, he achieved fame and fortune by flying, but he was very lucky. Had he failed, like so many others did(nobody knows their names), he would have been less than a footnote. He should have completed his engineering degree and THEN go flying. And if we're honest, his solo flight really only proved a plane could fly over the Atlantic. In a couple years, it would be done all the time. Nope, not impressed. Did he have guts? Yes. Was he smart...well.....

“The Lawless Days of Early Aviation “ idiot title. Lawlessness is the flaunting, disregarding or breaking of the law. If there are no laws you can’t be lawless.

Video is too long! Did not watch! Up to 20 minutes at most for this subject!