Amy Johnson

Amy Johnson was born on July 1st, 1903 in a seaport
Hull. In 18 years she has entered in

Sheffield
University on economic faculty. Then she did not know, that absolutely soon she will start to dream of much less peace and comfortable profession – aviatresses. In 1920s years it was not even a profession, it was a risky and expensive hobby, passion, madness!

The first independent flight took place on June 9th, 1929, and later, this month Amy Johnson has received the treasured license.

After that, in 1928 Bert Hinkler has made an impressing single flight from
London to
Australia. The world was ill with aviation records. And Amy Johnson has solved, that her hour has come: she has intended to break record of Hinkler. Amy wanted to reach the remote continent in 15 day instead of 16.

 Start of historical flight on May 5th, 1930 almost has not caused responses in press. Later Amy Johnson recollected, that she has gone to this adventure not because nothing was afraid, but because she did not expect that she will be involved in such adventure. When she made the longest non-stop flight, on May 24^th, Amy Johnson has landed on northern extremity of the Australian continent – in the city of
Darwin.

On January 5th, 1941, Amy Johnson lost her course in bad weather conditions near
Oxford. In ice water of
Thames was found her pilots tablet.

The destiny has given her a gift; it has passed more than half a century, and
England still remembers Amy Johnson. Her legendary plane decorates the National museum of a science and technics, and British association of women-pilots annually awards the premium of her name for professional achievements. The contemporaries have remembered Amy Johnson in an aura of glory – the heroine, the goddess of the sky, the subjugator of the sixth ocean!

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