OVER TWO OCEANS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 635, 11 April 1929, Page 9

OVER TWO OCEANS

CAPT. LANCASTER AND MRS. MILLER LONG FLIGHT PLANNED

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) NEW YORK, Tuesday.

In an interview at Redbank, New Jersey, Mrs. Keith Miller, formerly of Melbourne, announced definite plans for a transatlantic flight with Captain W. N. Lancaster and Captain Eyre. She has just secured her private pilot’s licence. The flyers intend to take off from Los Angeles in a three-engined cabin monoplane, which is being built for them there. They propose to fly first to New York and thence to London and back, calling on the return at New York and ending the flight at captain Lancaster Los Angeles. It is learned that the flyers hope, if their plans materialise, and if their machine proves adequate, to continue on to Australia from the Pacific coast after the double transatlantic journey. The purpose of the flight, said Mrs. Miller, will be to demonstrate the reliability of the tliree-engined type of monoplane and to observe the meteorological conditions. The machine, which now is about half completed, is of all-metal construction, with a 78ft wing-spread. It will have a cruising speed of 100 miles an hour and a fuel capacity of 1,700 gallons. Two Wright Whirlwind motors of 225 h.p. each will be fitted and one Pratt-Whitney Hornet motor of 550 h.p. It was announced in September last from Los Angeles that Mrs. Miller and Captain Lancaster contemplated a transatlantic flight. At that time they proposed to take with them Captain H. Lyon, who navigated the Southern Cross on the transpacific flight.