ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 112, 11 April 1929, Page 7

ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

NEW YORK TO LONDON AND BACK. AUSTRALIAN YaDY’S PLANS. (Australian Press Association.) NEW YORK, April 9. Mrs Keith Miller, the wife of a Sydney journalist, announced to-day that she had' made definite plans for a trans-Atlantic flight with Captain Lancaster and Lieutenant Eyre. Mrs Miller, who will be remembered as having flown from England to Australia last year in company with Captain Lancaster, has secured her private pilot’s license. The fliers intend to take off from Los Angeles in a tri-motored cabin monoplane—the machine is being built for them in Los Angeles—fly to New York and thence to London and back, touching at New York and Los Angeles. If their plans materialise, and the machine proves adequate, they will continue on to Australia from the Pacific coast, after negotiating the Atlantic both ways. Mrs Miller stated to-day: “The purpose of the flight will be to demonstrate the reliability of the tri-inotored type of ’plane and to observe meteorological conditions.” The machine, which is now about half completed, is an all-metal construction with a 78ft. wing spread, a cruising speed of 108 miles an hour, a fuel capacity of 1700 gallons, and two Wright whirlwind motors of 226 h.p. each, and one Pratt-Whitney-Hornet motor of 550 h.p.

IRISH AIRWAYS, LIMITED. DUBLIN-LONDON SERVICE. (United Service). LONDON, April 10. Colonel Fitzmaurice, who flew from Ireland to Newfoundland last year, is among the directors of the newlyformed Irish Airways, Limited, which lias submitted to the Free State Government a scheme for a daily service between Dublin and London with machines carrying from 12 to 20 passengers. The scheme also includes an air-taxi service linking Dublin and other towns with seaside resorts.