Mary, the Woman Who Fell To Earth

There's a 4 page PDF that gives the history of Lady Mary Heath, Ireland's "Amelia Earhart." Mary Heath broke endurance records, founded Ireland's first commercial airline and became the first woman to pilot a passenger aeroplane but then she died, broke, bitter and forgotten.

Click on the link below to download the PDF for yourselves. It makes for interesting reading.

http://www.pdf-archive.com/2011/01/12/the-silver-lining/the-silver-lining.pdf

VIdeos of Ernst Udet, Lady Mary Heath,

Went to YouTube today to see if there were any new videos on women pilots...ended up with a few off-topic videos and a few on-topic ones... there's a wealth of cool aviation-related vidoes there...



In the US after the first World War, German Ace Ernst Udet performs a dead stick loop and side slip landing hitting a narrow road dead center, at the National Air Races



Lady Mary Heath in a brief doc called Lady Icarus. The individual who put this doc together is attempting to raise funds to put a full-length documentary together.

Video of Svetlana Kapanina


Hanna Reitsch - German test pilot

New at Winged Victory: interview with author of Lady Icarus

I interviewed Lindie Naughton, author of the 2004 biography Lady Icarus: The Life of Lady Mary Heath.

It makes for pretty interesting reading, both from the standpoint of how one goes about researching a biography - of anyone - and also gives some insight into the rather tragic life of this larger-than-life woman, Britain's "Lady Lindy" - Mary Heath, the first woman to fly an open cockpit plane from Cape Town, South Africa to London, England - a journey that took three months!