Search results
Jessie Maude "Chubbie" Miller (1902 – 1972, London, England) was a pioneering Australian aviator. [1]
Mar 7, 2019 · Jessie Miller may have started out as an unconventional young woman seeking adventure, but she became a complex, thoughtful achiever. As her adventures turned dangerous and tragic, her thrillseeking transformed into resourcefulness, bravery, composure and a determination to be happy.
Jessie Keith-Miller—jokingly called “Chubbie” by her friends, a childhood nickname that had evolved into a winking reference to her slender five-foot-one frame—had arrived in London only weeks before, leaving behind Australia and a husband to whom she was unhappily married.
Jessie Miller may have started out as an unconventional young woman seeking adventure, but she became a complex, thoughtful achiever. As her adventures turned dangerous and tragic, her thrillseeking transformed into resourcefulness, bravery, composure and a determination to be happy.
Sep 5, 2017 · One of those fortunate individuals was Jessie Miller, a girl from Southern Cross, 230 miles from Perth, who became the first woman to complete a flight from England to Australia. It was 1928, and Jessie was 26 years old. By her side was Bill Lancaster, her fellow pilot, and illicit lover.
May 8, 2018 · Bill Lancaster, a 29-year-old pilot in the Royal Air Force was married…and looking for a new adventure. That adventure came in the form of 23-year-old Jessie Miller, who was fleeing a passionless marriage in Australia and found herself thrust into London’s Bright Young Things society—immersing herself in a world of gin and flappers.
Aug 24, 2017 · As Spicer writes in the first line of the book’s preface: Before Amelia Earhart, there was pioneer Australian aviatrix Jessie Keith Miller. Before her, no woman had ever travelled so far in the air or even crossed the equator above the planet’s surface….
Jessie Maude 'Chubbie' Miller left the U.K. in June 1927 with Bill Lancaster (Q.V.) in an AVRO Avian. After 159 days the Western Australian (from Southern Cross) finally arrived as the first woman to complete an England to Australia flight. She died in London in 1972.
Jun 25, 2018 · When Jessie Miller met RAF pilot Bill Lancaster, who wanted to fly from London to Melbourne, they fell in love - but the relationship would end in a booze fuelled tragedy.
Apr 1, 2017 · Jessie Keith Miller was thrown into the international spotlight in the late 1920s when, escaping from the boredom of her life in Melbourne, she fled to the UK where she managed to convince British aviator Bill Lancaster to let her be his co-pilot.
