Horrie Miller (aviator)

Horrie Miller
Born Horace Clive Miller
30 April 1893
Ballarat, Victoria
Died 1980 (aged 8687)
Children Robin Miller
Miller and friends with DH 60 Gipsy moth VH-UJX. Miller is 2nd from left

Horace Clive "Horrie" Miller OBE (30 April 1893 – 1980) was a pioneering Australian aviator and co-founder of MacRobertson Miller Airlines (MMA).

He flew in the 1929 Western Australian Centenary Air Race, winning handicap honours.[1][2]

The main road to the Perth International Airport Terminal 1 is named Horrie Miller Drive in honor of the aviatior. [3]

Footnotes

  1. H.C. Miller - Horrie Miller and the centenary air race of 1929. Sunday Independent (23 hours 31 minutes 58 seconds), 16 Dec. 1984, p. 18
  2. Western Australian Aviators Hall of Fame
  3. https://www.allhomes.com.au/ah/wa/property-research/horrie-miller-drive-perth-airport-wa-6105/1928009210

References

See also

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, March 26, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.