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Jessie Miller. Bill Lancaster and Jessie Miller stand in front of the Red Rose. Born. 1902. Died. 1972. Jessie Maude " Chubbie " Miller (1902 – 1972, London, England) was a pioneering Australian aviator. [1]
Jessie Miller was an Australian woman who flew with Captain William Lancaster from London to Melbourne in 1928, breaking a world record and becoming a celebrity. She also wrote a memoir with a ghostwriter, Haden Clarke, who fell in love with her and killed her husband in a shocking crime.
Mar 7, 2019 · Jessie Miller (1901–72) was the first woman to fly from England to Australia, the first to cross the equator in a plane, and the first to earn a commercial pilot's licence in Canada. She also competed in air races, wrote an autobiography, and survived a murder trial involving her lover.
Born in a remote mining town at the dawn of the last century, Jessie Miller used her intelligence, passion and courage to achieve worldwide fame as a record-setting aviatrix. Miller was born Jessie Maude Beveridge in Southern Cross, 371 kilometres east of Perth, where her father Charles Beveridge was the bank manager.
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.
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Sep 5, 2017 · Jessie Miller was the first woman to fly from England to Australia in 1928, with her lover Bill Lancaster. She defied sexism, death and danger in a daring adventure across the world.
Aug 24, 2017 · By any measure, Jessie Miller was a very significant aviator and her accomplishments still stand as an example and inspiration to anyone with an interest in flying. As Spicer writes in the first line of the book’s preface: Before Amelia Earhart, there was pioneer Australian aviatrix Jessie Keith Miller.
