Author: Keith Robey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: K. A. Lalani
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911320333
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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"This is an extensive, fully-researched biography of Amy Johnson, Britain's most famous aviatrix. Unto the Skies takes readers from the early days of her childhood and adolescence in Hull, through to her estrangement from her family in London, to the point where her love of flying led to the fame she later, albeit reluctantly, gained after her epic 1930 Australia flight. The story of Amy's death is still surrounded by mystery, after she crashed into the Thames estuary and was drowned; her body was never recovered. Her story still serves as an inspiration to many, being Britain's first qualified woman ground engineer - despite being told she would never be a flier - and completing her world-famous solo flight at the age of 26, before other setting other records. The story of her life will be widely enjoyed."--Publisher description.

Author: Constance Babington Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: Philip Sugden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902645629
Category : Women air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Gregory Jacobson
Publisher: Emereo Publishing
ISBN: 9781488549205
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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A New Amy Johnson Biography That Will Give You ALL You Want To Know. This book is your ultimate resource for Amy Johnson. Here you will find the most up-to-date 35 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Amy Johnson's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Blackpool International Airport - History, Royal Aeronautical Society - Amy Johnson Named Lecture, Pendine Sands - Record attempts, Ferry flying - Ferry pilots, RAF Kidlington - Accidents and incidents, Amy Johnson - Honours and tributes, They Flew Alone - Cast, Roundshaw - Local Amenities, Sewerby Hall - History, Jim Mollison - Second World War, Darwin, Northern Territory - Transport, Wallington, London - Education, Air Transport Auxiliary - Pilots, Anna Neagle - Back to Britain, They Flew Alone - Synopsis, Aviator - Pioneers, Chalk, Kent - History, Walsall Aerodrome - History, Amy Johnson - Popular culture, Jim Mollison - Aviation career, MacRobertson Air Race, Peril at End House - References to actual history, geography and current science, Andrew Percy - Early life, Amy Johnson - Disputed circumstances, Air racing - Notable racing pilots, Kingston High School, Hull - Ex-pupils, KCAL-TV - Current on-air staff, University of Sheffield - Pioneers, Sewerby Hall - Attractions, Crazy, Stupid, Love - Cast, Valentine Baker (pilot) - Civilian life, Croydon Airport - Aviators, pioneers and aircraft, and much more...

Author: Midge Gillies
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780753817704
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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In May 1930, Amy Johnson, a typist from Hull, took off from Croydon Airport with a thermos flask and a packet of sandwiches to try to beat the world solo record to Australia. She arrived, sun-blistered and with grease on her face, after weeks of flying a second-hand, open-cockpit biplane with no radio communication and the most basic of maps. Her adventures inspired a world struggling with the devastating effects of the Depression and made her into a celebrity overnight. She married Scottish playboy Jim Mollison, and together 'The Flying Sweethearts' broke records, mixed with the Mayfair Set, Amelia Earhart and Hollywood stars. But her tempestuous marriage was soon to crumble and she resumed her love affair with speed, taking up gliding and rally driving, and finding solace with a French millionaire. Her plane disappeared over the Thames Estuary during the Second World War, sparking rumours which are still being investigated today. Her body was never found.

Author: Amy Johnson
Publisher: Trotamundas Press
ISBN: 9781906393182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Amy Johnson bacame world famous as the first woman to fly solo in a historical journey from England to Australia in 1930. She also set records in other flights, including a 1931 flight from England to Japan, a 1932 flight from England to Cape Town and another flight to Cape Town in 1935. She was also the first British trained woman ground engineer, the only woman in the world to do so at that time. Amy Johnson married Scottish aviator Jim Mollison in 1932 with whom she flew non-stop from South Wales to the United States in 1933. They also set a record together flying non-stop to India in 1934. The couple divorced in 1938. During WWII Amy joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. Her flying duties consisted of ferrying aircraft from factory airstrips to RAF bases. It was on one of these flights that she crashed into the Thames estuary and was drowned in 1941. Her body was never recovered and her legend was thus born.

Author: David Luff
Publisher: Airlife Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Adoration surrounded Amy Johnson throughout most of the 1930s. Around the world people admired this young woman who had flown solo from England to Australia in a small single-engined biplane, a woman with less than 100 hours' flying experience.

Author: Hull Public Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Amy Johnson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524660922
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Top FlightRAF Lakenheath It is autumn of 2015, and there are cozier places to be than the cockpit of a US F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet. But there is one US Air Force pilot who has taken off from RAF Lakenheath for a test flight over the North Sea near Scotland before returning back to the RAF base in Suffolk. If all checks are normal, Major Thom will be heading back to the US, to his home, with his unit and squadron. His flight plan is simple, the fuel tank full, and after a few flight checks as required prior to all long haul flights, he would be back at the officers mess, in time for a drink with his squadron pilots. But then he suffers cockpit failures and loses radio contact. He resorts to his beacon responder and sends out a pan call. He waits patiently as the North Sea fog closes in, signaling to him extreme danger, and even certain death, as the fuel gauge begins to drop with passing time. This then is the story of a brave pilot awaiting rescue back to Lossiemouth or Leuchers, the RAF Bases in Scotland. GarvochleahAngus Major Douglas Phillipshandsome, wealthy, and decorated for his bravery in Afghanistanis recognized by London society as an eligible bachelor. Yet, despite his success, he flounders at the age of twenty-nine to find a soul mate. Beautiful Ambrose, the daughter of a diplomat, rejects his proposal for a richer suitor and, while still remaining good friends, leaves him somewhat heartbroken. However, optimistically, he returns to Garvochleah with his two horses, Equss and Chestnut. Once in Scotland he meets Morag, who lives in impoverished gentility in the Scottish countryside, the global oil recession having had a serious impact on the stable keepers of the North East. Untouched by fashion and trends of Scottish oil and city life, she devotes her time to the upkeep of her stables and her horses. Major Phillips finds in her a gem of a rare quality. Her perfect landscape, once he learns, had a history of wealth, and he soon discovers that, without money coming in from fresh sources, she stands to lose everything. This chance meeting makes them join forces, and Douglas invites her to a London society ball attended by the Duke of Cambridge. Delighted she accepts and both believe they can be seen as a powerhouse of a team with great potential. As they plot and plan to taken London by storm, little do they both realize that their plans would create a game and spin a web from which neither of them may make a safe exit.