London-to-Cape

When a man & woman make a spectacular flight together two things happen: i) the woman gets most of the publicity, and 2) whether or not she did her share of the work she is flayed for getting most of the publicity. So it was last week with Peggy Salaman, 19, attractive London debutante, and Pilot Gordon Store who set Miss Salaman's Puss Moth monoplane Good Hope down upon the new Municipal Airdrome at Cape Town, South Africa, five and one half days after leaving Lympne, Kent, England. The flight (7,000 mi.) beat by more than a day the record set last April by the late Lieut. Commander George Pearson Glen Kidston. Pilot Store found it necessary to refute assertions in the London press that Miss Salaman (whose baggage consisted of a revolver and an evening dress) was too inexperienced to be useful. He said: "She did 50-50 flying with me for the 64 hours. . . . My job was navigator." In London Peggy's mother, Mrs. Elkin Salaman, native of Albany, N. Y., attributed the flight's success to her daughter's belief in Christian Science: "I think Peggy instilled Store with her wonderful enthusiasm and driving force."

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