"Baker. In that same year, she became the first British woman to obtain a ground engineer's ""C"" licence. Johnson obtained the funds for her first aircraft from her father, who would always be one of her strongest supporters, and Lord Wakefield. She purchased a second-hand de Havilland DH.60 Gipsy Moth G-AAAH and named it ""Jason"" after her father's business trade mark. Johnson achieved worldwide recognition when, in 1930, she became the first woman pilot or aviatrix to fly solo from England to Australia. Flying G-AAAH ""Jason"", she left Croydon, south of London, on 5 May and landed at Darwin, Northern"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"woman to gain a pilot's 'A' or private licence. She died seven months later in a Sydney ferry accident. Her funeral, at Manly in Sydney, included a flypast by five aircraft. Bobby Terry as she was known, the wife of John Edgar Terry, grazier of Gunnedah, New South Wales, was the first Australian woman to own her own airplane in 1929. She was the second Australian woman to take a commercial pilot's licence, and qualified to fly seaplanes. She was a member of the group who flew with Amy Johnson into Sydney in 1930. She was a member of the"
"Ninety-Nines. She later married Monte Fowler. Margaret Skelton, the daughter of a grazier of Inverell, New South Wales, was one of the six women pilots to escort Amy Johnson as she flew into Sydney, on her history making flight in 1930. After taking her licence in 1929, Skelton struggled to fulfil her ambition of flying to England during the years of the Great Depression, as she did not own a plane. She was no longer flying by 1953. Phyllis Rogers Arnott from Sydney, Australia, a member of the Arnott's biscuit manufacturing family, was the first Australian woman to take a"
"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"
"officially opened by Amy Johnson from Hull, who had been the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. An advertisement costing £500 (2011:£) was placed in the ""Daily Express"", announcing the opening of the camp and inviting the public to book for a week's holiday. The advertisement offered holidays with three meals a day and free entertainment with a week's full board, at a cost of between 35 shillings (£1.75) and £3 (2011:£), according to the time of year. The advert proved successful, and over the first summer season the capacity of the camp had to be increased"
"Freda Thompson Freda Thompson OBE (5 April 1909 – 11 December 1980) was a pioneer aviator, the first Australian woman to fly solo from the United Kingdom to Australia. Born at South Yarra, Melbourne Victoria to parents Frederick and Martha Thompson, Thompson was educated at Toorak College in Melbourne leaving with Honours, Proficiency Certificates Pianoforte and Ice Skating. On 28 May 1930 she did her first flight as a pilot and later in that year obtained her A Licence. In 1932 Thompson obtained her Commercial Pilots licence and won the Adelaide Aerial Derby for Victoria. In 1933 she was the"
"one at Sheerness. For some time Butlin had nurtured the idea of a holiday camp. He had seen the way landladies in seaside resorts would, sometimes literally, push families out of the lodgings between meals, regardless of the weather. Butlin toyed with the idea of providing holiday accommodation that encouraged holiday-makers to stay on the site and even provided entertainment for them between meals. He opened his first Butlin's camp at Ingoldmells, near Skegness, on 11 April 1936 (Easter eve). It was officially opened by Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. An advertisement costing"
"Sir Ross Macpherson Smith. Freda Thompson Freda Thompson OBE (5 April 1909 – 11 December 1980) was a pioneer aviator, the first Australian woman to fly solo from the United Kingdom to Australia. Born at South Yarra, Melbourne Victoria to parents Frederick and Martha Thompson, Thompson was educated at Toorak College in Melbourne leaving with Honours, Proficiency Certificates Pianoforte and Ice Skating. On 28 May 1930 she did her first flight as a pilot and later in that year obtained her A Licence. In 1932 Thompson obtained her Commercial Pilots licence and won the Adelaide Aerial Derby for Victoria. In"
"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,"
"the Australian Women's Pilot Association in 1954, to recognise a noteworthy feat by a female pilot each year. After the death of 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. It inspired her to take flying lessons in 1931, where she went on to become the only woman In Australia to hold a first class pilot's 'A' and 'B' licences, in addition to 'A' and 'B' electrical ground engineers' certificates. Financial constraints stopped a planned trip to England. She"
"received more promotion and publicity. Neither of her aircraft still exist. Maude Bonney Maude Rose ""Lores"" Bonney, (20 November 1897 – 24 February 1994) was an Australian aviator and the first woman to fly solo from Australia to England. Born as Maude Rose Rubens, in Pretoria, South Africa, she adopted the name ""Lores"" later in preference to her given names. The family moved first to England, then to Australia. After education first in Melbourne, and then at a finishing school in Germany, she met and married Harry Barrington Bonney, a leather goods manufacturer in 1917 and moved to Brisbane, Queensland."
"South Wales, became the third Australian woman to earn a pilot's licence. A tiny woman, she had to sit on a cushion to reach the controls. She went on to set up an airways administration company, Adastra with her brother Captain Follett and Captain Bunny Hammond. Adastra also offered a flight school in Bega, New South Wales, and would conduct aerial survey services for geophysical study. Follett was one of the five female pilots who flew in formation with Amy Johnson when she made her landmark arrival into Sydney during her England-Australia flight in 1930. Follett donated a trophy to"
"Maude Bonney Maude Rose ""Lores"" Bonney, (20 November 1897 – 24 February 1994) was an Australian aviator and the first woman to fly solo from Australia to England. Born as Maude Rose Rubens, in Pretoria, South Africa, she adopted the name ""Lores"" later in preference to her given names. The family moved first to England, then to Australia. After education first in Melbourne, and then at a finishing school in Germany, she met and married Harry Barrington Bonney, a leather goods manufacturer in 1917 and moved to Brisbane, Queensland. In 1928 she met Bert Hinkler, Harry Bonney's first cousin once"
"first long solo flight, which occurred just as Amelia was coming into the national spotlight. By making the trip in August 1928, she became the first woman to fly solo across the North American continent and back. In 2001 Carlene Mendita recreated this flight in Greg Herrick's Type 594 Avian which he had purchased from Lang Kidby. At the time Herrick purchased the Avian from Kidby, two years prior, it was the oldest flying aircraft in Australia. It is now based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wilfrid R. ""Wop"" May used a 594 to make his famous January 1929 mercy flight with"
"Australia in the Gipsy Moth. Her trip of 14 days and 22 hours beat the existing England-to-Australia record of English aviatrix Amy Johnson by over four days. For this achievement and for subsequent record-breaking flights, she was awarded the Harmon Trophy three times (1935, 1936, 1937). She also received an endorsement contract with Castrol oil. Batten's book about her trip, ""Solo Flight"", was published by Jackson and O'Sullivan Ltd in 1934. Batten took a boat to New Zealand with the Gipsy Moth (which could not have flown across the Tasman Sea) and made a six-week aerial tour there before returning"
"to be just what the flying world was waiting for. In 1928 de Havilland Aircraft Company Limited went public. Initially De Havilland concentrated on single and two-seat biplanes, continuing the DH line of aircraft built by Airco but adapting them for airline use, but then they introduced a series of smaller aircraft powered by de Havilland's own Gipsy engines. These included the Gipsy Moth and Tiger Moth. These aircraft set many aviation records, many piloted by de Havilland himself. Amy Johnson flew solo from England to Australia in a Gipsy Moth in 1930. The Moth series of aeroplanes continued with"
"and nurse, who was unable to secure work flying proposed to airline executives that women be allowed to act as hostesses on planes. She was hired on a three-month trial basis by Boeing Air Transport and selected the first seven flight attendants for airlines, requiring them to be under 115 pounds, nurses and unmarried. Women continued to break records. In 1930, Amy Johnson an English aviator, made the first England to Australia flight by a woman. Antonie Strassmann, a German emigre to the US, became the first woman to successfully cross the Atlantic aboard an aircraft, traveling in May 1932"
"racecourse. After popularity waned, it was developed into an aerodrome and officially opened in 1929 by Prince George, Duke of Kent. The aerodrome was best known for being the arrival point for Hull-born aviator Amy Johnson on her triumphant homecoming following the record-breaking solo flight to Australia in 1930. After ten years of operation, the aerodrome closed following the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Following the end of the war in 1945, the site was briefly used as a motorcycle speedway track, before attempts were made in the late-1950s to reopen it for flying again. These attempts"
"days, 19 hours for a flight from Australia to England, and in March 1932, a record for flying from England to South Africa in 4 days, 17 hours. Mollison had flown commercially for Charles Kingsford Smith's ill-fated Australian National Airways. During one of his commercial flights, he met the equally famous aviator Amy Johnson, whom he proposed to only eight hours after meeting her, and while still in the air. Johnson accepted; they married on July 1932, and she went off to break her husband's England to South Africa record. They were dubbed ""The Flying Sweethearts"" by the press and"
"Governor-General of Australia, and Gaby Kennard, the first Australian woman to fly solo around the world. National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame The National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame is a museum located in the former Alice Springs Gaol in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. It aims to recognise the place of women in history, and particularly the role of women in Australia's development. It recognises ""any woman who is a pioneer in her chosen field from settlement to present day"". The museum was founded in 1993 by Molly Clark of Old Andado Station. It opened in September 1994 in"
"12½ minute flight, making her the first woman to fly in Australia. Official observers from the Australian Army observed these demonstrations and were also taken for flights. Although reports were favorable no aircraft were ordered. After the flights in Melbourne Hammond returned to his home in New Zealand and the demonstrations in Sydney were made by his assistant, Leslie Macdonald, who took a photographer from the ""Daily Telegraph"" for a 25-minute flight over Sydney on 6 May, making the first aerial photographs to be taken in Australia. By 19 May, 72 flights totalling 765 miles had been made by No."
"her life in the ten years since the voyage. Kay Cottee Kay Cottee (born 25 January 1954) is an Australian sailor, who was the first woman to perform a single-handed, non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the world. She performed this feat in 1988 in her yacht ""Blackmores First Lady"", taking 189 days. Born Kay McLaren—the youngest of four daughters—in Sydney on 25 January 1954, Cottee grew up in the southern Sydney suburb of Sans Souci. She was born into a yachting family and was taken sailing for the first time when only a few weeks old. For secondary schooling, she"
"brought many jobs. Bryn Navigation Collieries Co. began sinking this colliery in the mid-1890s. The coal tip above Meadow row was called 'Amy', some say its named after 'Amy Johnson' the first women aviator to fly solo from England to Australia others say its named after one of the machines there. Later the owners were listed as Messrs Baldwin's Ltd. then Thomas Richard & Baldwin's Ltd. In 1908 there were 380 men employed, producing House and Manufacturing coal. By 1918 the workforce had grown to 650. From a list 1923 there were 683 men employed, producing from the Middle and"
"flight, including the trip to Mount Everest. She flew on to Bali - and eventually Australia. In the process, she became only the second woman to fly solo from Europe to Australia, after Amy Johnson. The foreword of her book, ""Flying Girl"" (1935), was written by Richard Halliburton (whose English publisher, as hers, was Geoffrey Bles); it includes a photo of Moye Stephens repairing her plane. Barbara H. Schultz' ""Flying Carpets, Flying Wings - The Biography of Moye Stephens"" (2011) contains Stephens' own account of their meeting which was first introduced in Halliburton's bestselling ""The Flying Carpet"" (1932). Having landed"
"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,"
"south. Flying at the site was restricted because of radio masts, telephone wires and its proximity to Salt End chemical works which was only to the south-west. The piece of history that Hedon is most famous for was in August 1930, when Amy Johnson arrived at the aerodrome to a rapturous applause and gifts from the people of her home town. She had just returned to the United Kingdom after performing her solo flight from England to Australia. Sir Alan Cobham's Flying Circus visited the site in the 1930s and for a while from 1934 to 1935, the Dutch carrier,"
"Naomi James Dame Naomi Christine James, DBE (née Power; born 2 March 1949) is the first woman to have sailed single-handed (i.e., solo) around the world via Cape Horn, the second woman to have ever sailed solo around the world. She departed Dartmouth, Devon on 9 September 1977 and finished her voyage around the globe on 8 June 1978 after 272 days, thus improving Sir Francis Chichester's solo round-the-world sailing record by two days. She was born in New Zealand on a landlocked sheep farm and did not learn how to swim until the age of 23. She worked as"
"nurse who served with the Australian Army Nursing Service during World War I. She took a pilot's licence in England in 1919, and her achievement was recorded on film, but McMaugh was not allowed to use her licence within Australia. After World War I, and with the historic flights of Charles Kingsford Smith and Bert Hinkler, however, the Australian's public appetite for flying and air races was whetted. Pilots such as Amelia Earhart and Amy Johnson, inspired Australian women to want to take to the air. On March 28, 1927, widow Millicent Bryant from Vaucluse, Sydney became the first Australian"
"of EADS, on 12 December 2013. The Amy Johnson Named Lecture was inaugurated in 2011 by the Royal Aeronautical Society's Women in Aviation and Aerospace Committee to celebrate a century of women in flight and to honour Britain's most famous woman aviator. The Lecture is held on or close to 6 July every year to mark the date in 1929 when Amy Johnson was awarded her pilot’s licence. The Lecture is intended to tackle serious issues of interest to a wide audience, not just women. High-profile women from industry are asked to lecture on a topic that speaks of future"