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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. Together they would make waves throughout the 1920s and ...
Aug 24, 2017 · Miller was born Jessie Maude Beveridge on Friday the 13th of September, 1901 – first child of the bank manager for god-forsaken whistle-stop mining town in Western Australia’s vast, hot inland. Mercifully, the family moved to Perth in 1905; Broken Hill, NSW in 1907; Timaru, New Zealand, in 1916 and finally back to Melbourne, Victoria in 1920.
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. Even though she'd never flown before, she became the first to woman fly across the equator -- a 22 ...
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Jan 30, 2017 · Pioneer aviatrix Jessie "Chubbie" Miller made a significant contribution to aviation history. The first woman to fly from England to her native Australia (as co-pilot with her close friend Captain Bill Lancaster), she was also the first woman to fly more than 8000 miles, to cross the equator in the air and to traverse the Australian continent north to south.
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