"Fanshawe Pioneer Village Fanshawe Pioneer Village is an open-air museum established in 1959 and located in the Fanshawe Conservation Area in London, Ontario. The village uses historical re-enactments to communicate the history of rural communities in the former townships of Westminster, London, North Dorchester, Delaware, West Nissouri and Lobo in Middlesex County from 1820 to 1920 and the founding and development of the City of London up to 1840. The pioneer village is owned and operated by the London and Middlesex Heritage Museum, a not-for-profit charity, with the support of the City of London, the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority,"
"Amy Johnson Amy Johnson (1 July 1903 – 5 January 1941) was a pioneering English aviator who was the first female pilot to fly alone from Britain to Australia. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, she set numerous long-distance records during the 1930s. She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and died during a ferry flight. Amy Johnson was born at 154 St. George's Road in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest of the four daughters of John William Johnson, a member of the family fish merchants"
"gave Johnson) was painted in Cricklewood railway station to commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of women getting the right to vote in the United Kingdom. Amy Johnson Amy Johnson (1 July 1903 – 5 January 1941) was a pioneering English aviator who was the first female pilot to fly alone from Britain to Australia. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, she set numerous long-distance records during the 1930s. She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and died during a ferry flight. Amy Johnson was born at 154 St. George's Road in"
"1938. She resumed her maiden name. Both Amy Johnson and Mollison eventually served in the ATA Air Transport Auxiliary in the Second World War. Johnson was killed while ferrying an aircraft in 1941. A notable incident occurred when Mollison flew as a co-pilot with Diana Barnato Walker. Their Anson was intercepted and shot up by Luftwaffe fighters. Although the aircraft was hit, the 12 passengers and crew were unhurt. On landing, Jim's only concern was ""how to get a cup of tea!"" In June 1941 Mollison and an ATA crew delivered Cunliffe-Owen OA-1 G-AFMB to Fort Lamy, Chad. The aircraft"
"the Second World War. It was intended to be both a film honouring Johnson, who had died in 1941 during a ferry flight of an Airspeed Oxford, and a propaganda call to arms at the height of the war years. They Flew Alone They Flew Alone (released in the US as Wings and the Woman) is a 1942 British biopic about aviator Amy Johnson directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Robert Newton and Edward Chapman. It was distributed in the UK and the US by RKO Radio Pictures. The film chronicles the life of Amy Johnson,"
"(), Grayson Lake () and Omdahl Lake () which are in close proximity to each other in the Wabakimi Provincial Park. Frances Wilson Grayson Frances Wilson Grayson (c. 1892 – c. December 23, 1927) was an American woman who died flying to Newfoundland just prior to her attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean. She was a niece of President Woodrow Wilson. Grayson was born as Frances Wilson in Cherokee Village, Arkansas, to Andrew Jackson ""A.J."" Wilson and Minnie M. Lewis. She had two brothers: Walter M. Wilson later became a grocer in Muncie, Indiana. The other, Roscoe Jesse ""Jack"" Wilson"
"over the Andaman Sea in the early hours of 8 November 1935. Aviator Jimmy Melrose claimed to have seen the ""Lady Southern Cross"" fighting a storm 150 miles from shore and 200 feet over the sea with fire coming from its exhaust. Despite a search for 74 hours over the Bay of Bengal by test pilot Eric Stanley Greenwood, OBE, their bodies were never recovered. Eighteen months later, Burmese fishermen found an undercarriage leg and wheel, with its tyre still inflated, which had been washed ashore at Aye Island in the Gulf of Martaban, off the southeast coastline of Burma,"
"United States Air Force C-118 Liftmaster and the civilian Douglas DC-6B airliner – was carrying a crew of nine and 50 passengers on a scheduled Military Air Transport Service flight from RAF Lakenheath, England, to Lajes Field in the Azores on 10 October 1956[1] when it disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean about 590 km (370 miles) southwest of Land’s End, England, at approximately 22:10.[2][3] All of the passengers were personnel of the U.S. Air Force's 307th Bombardment Wing stationed at Lincoln Air Force Base, Nebraska, returning to the United States from 90 days of temporary duty in England.[4] The disappearance"
"They Flew Alone They Flew Alone (released in the US as Wings and the Woman) is a 1942 British biopic about aviator Amy Johnson directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Robert Newton and Edward Chapman. It was distributed in the UK and the US by RKO Radio Pictures. The film chronicles the life of Amy Johnson, the British pilot who had gained world attention in the 1930s for her exploits, among them two solo record flights from London to Cape Town in South Africa, and who had joined the Air Transport Auxiliary at the outbreak of"
"for Airspeed. It has been more recently hinted her death was due to friendly fire. In 1999, it was reported that Tom Mitchell, from Crowborough, Sussex, claimed to have shot Johnson's aircraft down when she twice failed to give the correct identification code during the flight. Mitchell explained how the aircraft was sighted and contacted by radio. A request was made for the signal. She gave the wrong one twice. ""Sixteen rounds of shells were fired and the plane dived into the Thames Estuary. We all thought it was an enemy plane until the next day when we read the"
"nose gunner. Tyson was killed when his plane crashed into the North Sea near the Humber River. In 1929, Charles McGhee Tyson's parents donated the tract of land to be used as an airfield in west Knoxville, stipulating that it be named in honor of their son. McGhee Tyson Airport was moved in 1935 to its present location in Alcoa, just south of Knoxville. Charles McGhee Tyson Charles McGhee Tyson (1889–1918) was an American businessman and Naval aviator from Knoxville, Tennessee. Tyson was lost in action during a naval patrol in the North Sea near the end of the First"
"Albert Johnson (criminal) Albert Johnson (born ca. 1890–1900 – died February 17, 1932), also known as the Mad Trapper of Rat River, was a fugitive whose actions stemming from a trapping dispute eventually sparked off a huge manhunt in the Northwest Territories and Yukon in Northern Canada. The event became a media circus as Johnson eluded the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) team sent to take him into custody, which ended after a foot chase lasting more than a month and a shootout in which Johnson was fatally wounded on the Eagle River, Yukon. Albert Johnson was a pseudonym and"
"Margaret Skelton Fanny Margaret ""Meg"" Skelton, (born 8 January 1903, date of death unknown) was an early Australian aviator and, in 1929, was among the first women to gain a pilot's licence in Australia. Skelton was one of six women who flew their biplanes in formation over the sea in order to guide Amy Johnson into Sydney after her flight between England and Australia in 1930. Skelton was the eldest daughter of George Richard and Fanny Louisa Skelton (nèe Bucknell) of Ottley near Inverell. Her family did not approve of her hobby and her father would not speak of it"
"drought caused the river to run dry. The river was the site of a famous airplane crash that has become the subject of numerous urban legends and conspiracy theories. Early in the morning of January 31, 1956, a B-25 bomber en route from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada to Olmsted Air Force Base in Pennsylvania crashed into the river near the Glenwood Bridge in Homestead, Pennsylvania. All six crewmen survived the crash, but two later succumbed to exposure and drowned. Despite the relative shallowness of the water, the aircraft was never recovered. The ""Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"" published a graphical representation"
"commander of the No 12 Ferry Pool at Cosford, one of only two women pool commanders in the whole ATA. On one occasion she arrived at a factory to discover that the employees were on strike and that the aircraft that she had been sent to collect could not be released. She went to the canteen, stood on a table and gave a resounding speech about the war effort. This secured the release of her aircraft. One of her colleagues was Amy Johnson, the woman aviator who drowned in the Thames whilst on a mission. Marion Wilberforce, who knew her"
"along the Wopmay River, where the earliest mountains in the world appeared during the Paleoproterozoic era, approximately two billion years ago. The city of Edmonton, Alberta, named the neighbourhood of Mayfield in honour of Wop May. In 2017 the airport at Fort Vermilion, Alberta was renamed Fort Vermilion (Wop May Memorial) Aerodrome in his honour. Wop May Wilfrid Reid ""Wop"" May (March 20, 1896 – June 21, 1952), was a Canadian flying ace in the First World War and a leading post-war aviator. He was the final Allied pilot to be pursued by Manfred von Richthofen before the German ace"
"among others. The induction was her sixth such honor. Johnson's scrapbooks, memorabilia, and other papers from the period 1930 to 2002 are housed in the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University. Johnson died at age 102 in 2012. Evelyn Bryan Johnson Evelyn Stone Bryan Johnson (November 4, 1909 – May 10, 2012), nicknamed ""Mama Bird"", was the female pilot with the most number of flying hours in the world. She was a colonel in the Civil Air Patrol and a founding member of the Morristown, Tennessee Civil Air Patrol squadron. Born as Evelyn Stone in Corbin, Kentucky, she"
"Most of the remaining line was lifted in 1982. Portions of the alignment have been converted into the New River Linear Trail hiking trail. On Friday December 13, 1935, Major Arthur K. Ladd, assigned as the assistant supply officer for the General Headquarters Air Force, Langley Field, Virginia, was piloting Boeing P-12F, ""32-100"", c/n 1676, '60', the 24th of 25 of the model built, of the 36th Pursuit Squadron, from Langley Field to Miami, Florida, and was killed, at ~1400 hrs. EST, when the biplane fighter crashed into a swamp near the Wimbee River on Heyward Island, ~3 miles E"
"Royal Air Force—flying from a base in Texas—went awry in poor weather and two planes crashed. One crashed into the south slope of White Rock Mountain above Moyers, Oklahoma, and another crashed on Big Mountain between Moyers and Kosoma. Two fliers lost their lives in the latter crash. School children from Rattan, Oklahoma erected a monument to them on Big Mountain in 2000. Also during World War II, the U.S. Navy honored the river with the launch of the USS ""Kiamichi"", hull number AOG-73, built by St. Johns River Shipbuilding in Jacksonville, Florida. She launched on August 17, 1945—just three"
"and sought to locate the site where Lady Heath crash-landed in 1928. She also sourced sponsors for the trip, including Boeing and ExecuJet Aviation Group. The main sponsor was Artemis Investment Management, and the biplane was hence named ""Spirit of Artemis."" On 1 October 2015 Curtis-Taylor departed from Farnborough, England, flying in ""Spirit of Artemis"", arriving in Sydney Australia on 9 January 2016. The journey was inspired by pioneer aviator Amy Johnson, who flew solo from England to Australia in 1930. The flight path was across 23 countries in 50 legs. She was accompanied by a small support crew in"
"in June 1930. Kingsford-Smith captained the flight with Dutch co-pilot Evert van Dyke, radio operator John Stannage, and Paddy Saul navigating. They were treated to a ticker-tape parade in New York on 25 June 1930 - a parade that stretched for miles. They had aimed for New York but ran short on fuel and had to land in Newfoundland after contacting US warship Wyoming by radio. Saul was amongst the speakers that Lady Heath invited to speak to National Junior Aviation Club in the 1930s. In 1932, Saul and W.R. Elliott flew Amy Johnson and her husband Jim Mollison over"
"Raymond A. Johnson Raymond A. Johnson, known as Ray Johnson (1912–1984), a native of Laramie, Wyoming, was one of his state's pioneer aircraft pilots. Besides commercial flights, his career included the tasks of weather observation, crop dusting, air racing, and lookouts for forest fires. In 2013, he became posthumously the 22nd inductee into the Wyoming Aviation Hall of Fame in Cheyenne. During World War II, Johnson was a test pilot on the North American P-51 Mustang and North American B-25 Mitchell for North American Aviation in Kansas City, Missouri. Afterwards, he worked at airports in Mitchell, Nebraska; Huron, South Dakota,"
"Staff. In January 1945, General Andersen was assigned to HQ AAF, Pacific Ocean Area. Andersen is believed to have died on 26 February 1945 in an aircraft accident near Kwajalein Island. He and Lieutenant General Millard Harmon were traveling on Consolidated C-87A Liberator Express serial number ""41-24174"", which disappeared between Kwajalein and Johnston Island while en route to Hawaii. The pilot of the aircraft was F. E. Savage. Andersen Air Force Base in the United States territory of Guam is named in his memory. James Roy Andersen Brigadier General James Roy Andersen (10 May 1904 – 26 February 1945) was"
"of the National Woman's Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career, and disappearance continues to this day. Earhart was the daughter of Samuel ""Edwin"" Stanton Earhart (1867–1930) and Amelia ""Amy"" (; 1869–1962). She was born in Atchison, Kansas, in the home of her maternal grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912), who was a former federal judge, the president of"
"cynical about her achievements. Her solo flight from Australia to England was also overlooked due to the more public success of Amy Johnson. Her Klemm aircraft was destroyed in a fire in 1939. Her first aircraft, the De Havilland plane was requisitioned during World War II and later scrapped. Bonney's plans for an around the world flight did not materialise due to World War II. Despite offering her services as a pilot in World War II, these were declined. She stopped flying after 1945. She was awarded an OBE in 1934 for her Australia-England flight. Nancy Bird born in Kew,"
"Amy, Wonderful Amy Amy, Wonderful Amy is a 1930 popular song, written by Joseph G. Gilbert and composed by Lawrence Wright (some sources credit him under his pseudonym Horatio Nicholls) about British aviator Amy Johnson. . It was recorded by Jack Hylton and his orchestra on 2 June 1930, with J. Pat O'Malley providing vocals , and released on HMV B-5836. The banjo and ukelele arrangement was provided by Alvin Keech. While at least ten songs were written about her at the time, ""Amy Wonderful Amy"" is the most famous. Amy Johnson was an English aviator who in 1930 flew"
"Samuel Brady Captain Samuel Brady (1756–1795) was a frontier scout, notorious Indian fighter, and the subject of many legends, in the history of western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. He is best known for jumping across a gorge over the Cuyahoga River to escape pursuing Indians in what is present day Kent, Ohio. This jump is still remembered as ""Brady's leap"". Samuel Brady was born on May 5, 1756, in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. His father was Capt. John Brady, who was born in 1733 near Newark, Delaware and who died April 11, 1779 near Muncy, Pennsylvania in an Indian attack."
"altitude at night failed on the second day of the flight. When the balloon encountered a high-altitude cold front and a severe rainstorm, they were forced to ditch in the Atlantic that night, about 600 miles southeast of Newfoundland. On September 20 came the last message from the ""Free Life"". ""We are ditching,"" it said. ""We request search and rescue."" The balloon went down in stormy seas off Newfoundland. Three Coast Guard cutters, a Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft and six United States Air Force and United States Coast Guard aircraft scoured the area for fourteen days. A few items"
"the controls flew to Northam to meet up with and escort Amy Johnson and de Havilland to Perth. Receiving the news that Johnson had been delayed in Kalgoorlie, Ford and Nesbitt flew onto Maylands Airport where West Australian airways made hangar space available for the Silver Centenary. When Johnson arrived she inspected the Silver Centenary and expressed disappointment that bad weather prevented her from flying the plane. On 14 July the Silver Centenary returned to Beverley, with the shire council congratulating Ford and offering to assist with any further events. Captain Nesbitt died on 4 October 1930 while flying a"
"and water search no trace of Gertrude or the aircraft were found. In January 2010 search efforts to locate the possible crash site in Santa Monica Bay were unsuccessful. Gertrude Tompkins Silver Gertrude ""Tommy"" Tompkins Silver (October 16, 1911 – disappeared October 26, 1944) was the only Women Airforce Service Pilots member to go missing during World War II. Gertrude Vreeland Tompkins was born October 16, 1911, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the daughter of Vreeland Tompkins and Laura Tompkins (""née"" Towar). She departed from Mines Field (Los Angeles International Airport) for Palm Springs, on October 26, 1944, flying a"
"off from Curtiss Field on Long Island, New York, on the evening of December 23, 1927, bound for Harbor Grace in Newfoundland. They radioed that something was wrong later in the evening and never reached Newfoundland; their remains were never found. Their plane probably went down in the Atlantic off Nova Scotia during a storm. Grayson was 35 years old at the time of her death. In 1928, the Ontario Surveyor General named a number of lakes in the northwest of the province to honour aviators who had perished during 1927, mainly in attempting oceanic flights. These include Goldsborough Lake"
"Amelia Earhart Amelia Mary Earhart (, born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. In 1935, Earhart became a visiting faculty member at Purdue University as an advisor to aeronautical engineering and a career counselor to women students. She was also a member"
"in 1947. Later in 1947, she led the drive to name the Miami Municipal Airport the Amelia Earhart Field, to honor the aviator who began her around-the-world flight from that field in 1937, disappearing over the Pacific Ocean. Following World War II, the annual All-American Air Maneuvers aviation event resumed in 1946 at Coast Guard Air Station Miami. The next year, women fliers were told they couldn’t participate; so the women of the Florida Ninety-Nines organized their own air show at Tampa, Florida's Peter O. Knight Airport. Penny was selected as the general chairman of the world's first All-Woman Air"