First Woman To Fly Pacific
I (N.Z Press Assn.— Copyright) BRISBANE, May 12. Mrs Betty Miller, a 36-year-old Californian housewife, tonight became the first woman to fly solo from the United States to Aus-’ tralia. Mrs Miller landed at Brisbane's Eagle Farm Airport at 10.23 p.m. New Zealand time alter flying from Oakland. (California, by way of Honolulu. Canton Island, Fiji—and an unscheduled stop earlier today at Noumea. New Caledonia Mrs Miller left Nandi, in Fiji, early today but ran into strong headwinds after passing New Caledonia, and returned to Noumea. She took off again about three hours later Her plane was a twinengined Apache which she is delivering to a Brisbane buyer. Mrs Miller flew approximately the reverse of the course taken by Amelia Earhart when the latter and her navigator disappeared on their wav from Lae. New Guinea, to Howland Island in the central Pacific on July 2, 1937.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30129, 13 May 1963, Page 15
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