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Amy Johnson and Jason in Jhansi, India in May 1930 Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison were married on 29 July 1932. In July 1933, Johnson and Mollison attempted to fly the de Havilland DH.84 Dragon I G-ACCV, named Seafarer, [13] nonstop from Pendine Sands, South Wales, heading to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York. [15]
English: On this day in 1930, Amy Johnson became the 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia. Big City down under gives courageous girl flyer big reception. Amy Johnson makes a lovely speech. Available from AP Archive - story number is: BM753.
After divorcing her husband, May Bradford Shepherd (born May Bradford, the name she also used professionally) from Rubyvale, Queensland, overheard a conversation about aviator Amy Johnson, which fired her competitive spirit. [54] It inspired her to take flying lessons in Brisbane, Queensland in 1930 and she attained her "A" Licence on 16 ...
Amy Johnson (m. 1932; div. 1938) James Allan Mollison MBE (19 April 1905 – 30 October 1959) was a Scottish pioneer aviator who, flying solo or with his wife, Amy Johnson , set many records during the rapid development of aviation in the 1930s.
Description: Miss Amy Johnson (Later Mrs. J.A.Mollison), who made a solo flight to Australia in May 1930 Approximate date of photograph: 1930: Date: 1938: Source: Scan from Foreword by E. Royston Pike (1938) Our Generation, London: Waverley Book Company
In 1930, English aviator Amy Johnson, made the first England to Australia flight by a woman. [91] The same year, inspired to learn to fly by Johnson's flight, Mrs Victor Bruce became the first person to fly from England to Japan, the first to fly across the Yellow Sea, and the first woman to fly around the world alone (crossing the oceans by ...
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First aircraft to fly with a de-icing system: was a National Air Transport Boeing Model 40 modified by William C. Geer with an expanding rubber boot mounted on a strut, which was flown by Wesley L. Smith in late March 1930 for the first of three test flights than continued into April. [185] [186]