AMBITIOUS FLIGHT.

Wairarapa Age, 11 April 1929, Page 5

AMBITIOUS FLIGHT.

PLANS OF AMERICAN LADY AVIATOR. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC. OBJECTS OF THE UNDERTAKING. (Received Wednesday, 7.16 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 9. Mrs. Miller has announced ' that she has made definite plans for a trans-Atlantic flight with Captains Lancaster and Eyre. She has just secured her private pilot’s license. The fliers intend to take off from Los Angeles in a tri-motored cabin monoplane, which is being built for them there. Flying to New York, thence to London and back, and touching at New York and Los Angeles, the fliers hope, if the plans materialise and the machine proves adequate, to continue on to Australia from the Pacific Coast, after negotiating the Atlantic both ways. Mrs. Miller says: “The purpose of the flight will be to demonstrate the reliability of the tri-motored type of ’plane and observe meteorological conditions.” The machine, which is now about half completed, is of all-metal construction, and has a 78 feet wing spread, and a cruising speed of a hundred miles per hour. The fuel capacity will be 1700 gallons. There will be two Wright “Whirlwind" motors of 225horso power each, and one Pratt-Whit-ney “Hornet" motor of 550-horse power.—(Australian Press Association.)