RETURN FLIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 230, 28 September 1928, Page 7

RETURN FLIGHT.

Los Angeles To London And Back With One Stop. LYON TO BE COMMANDER. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) NEW YORK, September 27. Captain Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller, who flew together from England to Australia, and Captain H. Lyon, who navigated the Southern Cross on the Pacific flight in June, arrived in New York yesterday from London. They are planning to fly next year from Los Angeles to London and back, via New York, where they propose to make the only stop on each trip. Their 'plane is now under construction. It is a three-motored all-metal monoplane of conventional design, with the exception of the forward motor, which will be of 400 horse-power. The wing motors will be of 200 horse-power each. The Radio Corporation of America is preparing the radio equipment. Captain Lyon will be in command, and Captain Lancaster and Mrs. Miller will assist him. The 'plane will fly the flags of Australia, England and the United States. The flyers expressed their great admiration of Captain Kingsford Smith's recent flights.

TRANS-ATLANTIC TRIP.

MacDONALD AND HIS MOTH

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.)

NEW YORK, September 27.

A message from St. Johns, Newfoundland, says Flight-Commander Mac Donald arrived there from England. He brought a Moth 'plane, in which he will attempt a solo flight across the Atlantic.