NEW PROJECT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 85, 11 April 1929, Page 9

NEW PROJECT.

ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

Mrs. Miller And Lancaster Plan

Lengthy Voyage

RETURN TRIP TO ENGLAND

(Au&iraiian and 2s.Z. Press Association.)

NEW YORK, April 10.

In an interview at Redbank. Xcw Jersey. Mrs. Keith Miller, formerly ..l Melbourne. announced definite plantor a trans-Atlantic flight with Captain W. X. Lancaster and Captain Lyre. She has just secured her private pilot's license. The flyers intend to take off from L">Angeles in a three-engined cabin monoplane, which is being built fur them there. They propose to fly fi:>t to New \ork, and tlience to London and hack, calling on the return at New York, and ending the flight in Los Angeles.

It is learned that the fivers hope, if their plans materialise, and if their machine proves adequate, to continue on to Ausralia from the Pacific coast after the double trans-Atlantic journey.

Mrs. Miller said: '"The purpose of the flight will Le to demonstrate the reliability of the three-engined type of monoplane, and to observe the meteorological conditions.

The machine, which now is now about half completed, is of •11-metal construction, with a 78ft wing-spread. It will have a cruising speed of 100 miles an hour, and a fuel capacity of 1700 gallon-.

Two Wright Whirlwind motors of 22h p. each will be fitted, and one Pratt Whitney Hornet motor of 550 h.p.

IRISH AIRWAYS.

FITZMAURICE A DIRECTOR

(United Service.)

LONDON, April 10

The former chief of the Iri-h Fiee State Air Force, Colonel Fitzmaur:; who recently went to America in -ea.eh of a position, is among the director- of a newy formed company known as Iri.>'u Airways, Ltd.

The compativ h.i> submitted to the Free State toneinment a scheme f-.r a daily >ervice between Dubiin and London. It propo>;-* to utilise machines which will carry from 12 to 2'i people. It al-o propo-c----an air taxi -ervue to link Dublin wilt; other towns and seaside reports.