IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 500, 1 November 1928, Page 9

IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

HURLEY AT OODNADATTA “ABYSMAL LONELINESS” (United. P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) SYDNEY, Wednesday. Captain Frank Hurley and FlyingOfficers Moir and Owen, who are attempting to fly to London in 10 days in- the monoplane Spirit of Australia, landed at Oodnadatta, in the northern part of South Australia, at 2.5 p.m. to-day (South Australian time). The airmen had hopped off from Broken Hill at 6 a.m. There was a strong head wind nearly all the way. The plane passed over a considerable extent of desert on which were straggling heaps of mulga bush. Captain Hurley describes this area as “a wilderness of abysmal loneliness.” In an interview at Broken Hill last night Captain Hurley explained that he does not intend to take a serious view of delays, as the time for the flight to England will not start until the monoplane leaves Wyndham, in the north of Western Australia. He intends to stay for a few hours at Wyndham to examine the engine before crossing the ocean to Andir, in the Dutch East Indies. He will then go on to Point Victoria, Burma.

ADRIFT IN PLANE MRS. MILLER’S ADVENTURE FORCED LANDING IN SEA (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) NEW YORK, Tuesday. Mrs. Miller, the Australian woman who accompanied Captain Lancaster on his flight from London to Australia, had a narrow escape to-day.

With foui; men Mrs. Miller was flying over the sea outside the port of Hampton Roads, Virginia, in the plane Flying Fish, in which they had ac-

companied Captains Lyon and Lancaster and Mr. Putnam m connection with the three men’s attempted flight to Bermuda. Engine trouble developed and Mrs. Miller- and her companions were forced to descend on phfne'drifted with its five occupants for a considerable time before they were seen by the crew of coastguard cutter, who rescued them. ions propose to continue their flight io Bermuda. Tlieir machine has been reconditioned.