Jessie Miller

Jessie Maude "Chubbie" Miller (1901 Western Australia – 1972, London, England) was a pioneering Australian aviator. In 1927, Miller became the first woman to complete an England-to-Australia flight when she flew with RAF pilot Bill Lancaster who was attempting to set a long distance flying record. Miller became an aviator in her own right, competing in the famous "Powder Puff Derby" of 1929. In 1930, she was presumed dead when her plane when down in storm on route from Havana to Miami, however, Miller was able to land safely in the Bahamas. She came to public attention again when Lancaster was accused of killing Haden Clarke, a male American writer, for whom Miller had left him.