TRANSATLANTIC VENTURE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20244, 2 May 1929, Page 13

TRANSATLANTIC VENTURE.

CAPTAIN LYON'S PLANS.

MRS. MILLER TO ACCOMPANY.

LANCASTER ALSO TO GO.

Australian Press Association—United Service (Received May 1, 11.5 p.m.) NEW, YORK. April 30.

A message from Hanover, New Hampshire, says Captain Harry Lyon, navigator of the Southern Cross on the Pacific flight, has announced his plans for an Atlantic flight from New York to London in July. Ho says he will fly from Los Angeles, California, to New York, thence to London and back.

Captain Lyon's companions will be Mrs. Keith Miller, of Melbourne, Australia, and Captain W. N. Lancaster, of Nottingham, England, who flew together from England to Australia.

A cablegram published yesterday stated that Captain Lyon contemplated attempting a flight rouud the world with Lieutenant Albert Hulse, Captain Lancaster, Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith, and two others. Their plan was stated to bo to start in September from Pasadena, California, to New York, across the Atlantic to London and on round the globo via Japan, Guam, and Honolulu back to California.

In an interview at Redbatik, New Jersey, on April 9 Mrs. Miller announced definite plans for a transatlantic flight with Captain W. N. Lancaster and Captain Eyre (not Captain Lyon). Sho had just secured her private pilot's licence. The message said: The fliers intend to take off from Los Angeles in a threeengined cabin monoplane, which is being built for them there. They propose to flv first to New York and thence to London and back, calling on the return at New York and ending the flight at Los Angeles. It is learned that the fliers Tiope, if their plans materialise and if their machine proves adequate, to continue oil to Australia from the Pacific coast after tho double transatlantic journey.

Mrs Miller said: Tho purpose of tho flight will be to demonstrate the reliability of tho three-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 1700 gallons. Two Wright Whirlwind motors of 225 h.p. each will bo fitted and one PrattWhitney Hornet motor of 550 h.p.