Flyers Fall Out

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 420, 31 July 1928, Page 9

Flyers Fall Out

Americans Who Flew with Kingstford Smith BREACH AT HOME SAN FRANCISCO, July 20. The “Los Angeles Times” says that Captain Harry Lyon and Air. James Warner, navigator and wireless operator respectively on the Pacific flight on the Southern Cross, have definitely parted. ' Warner told the paper that there would not be any negotiations between Lyon and himself. “I refuse to be a party to any other project which includes him,” added the wireless man. That they had planned their futures along different lines was made plain upon Warner’s removal from the hotel where both had been staying, and his subsequent engagement of two business managers. In spite of previous j denials, the breach between the two really began shortly after their arrival in Australia, according to Warner, who stated*that Lyon thereafter had paid little attention to him, and that he had made friends of whom he (Warner) could not approve. OLD SHIPMATES Lyon and Warner were shipmates during the war years, and it was the friendship born of the sea that sent Lyon racing to Warner immediately he was offered the job of navigating the SoLithern Cross. “Sure, I’ll go with you, Harry,” he said. When they left Sydney on June 27, Captain Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller, who flew from London to Australia, in the Red Rose, went with them. Lyon, it was stated, had been offered an important contract to take part in aviation films in the United States, and he engaged Mrs Miller and Lancaster to fly the plane which will be concerned in the venture. While the party was at Honolulu it was reported that Lyon, Lancaster and Mrs. Miller were making plans for a non-stop flight from England to New York in a triple-engined Fokker. The Americans were given a great welcome home at San Francisco, and presented with £2,000. SOUTHERN CROSS TESTS (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. Noon. SYDNEY, To-day. It is practically certain that the Southern Cross -will be given a trial flight to-morrow. The engines are now pronounced to be in first-class order.