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| name = Amy Johnson | honorific_suffix = {{postnom|country=GBR|size=100|CBE}} | image = Amy Johnson portrait.jpg | caption = Amy Johnson c. 1930 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|7|1|df=y}} | birth_place = Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|1|5|1903|7|1|df=y}} | death_place = Thames Estuary, near Herne Bay, Kent, England | education = Boulevard Municipal Secondary School | alma_mater = University of Sheffield | occupation = Aviator | awards = Segrave Trophy (1932) | spouse = {{marriage|Jim Mollison|29 July 1932|1938|end=div}} }} Amy Johnson {{postnom|country=GBR|CBE}} (born 1 July 1903, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, Eng.— vanished 5 January 1941, over the Thames estuary), was a spearheading female pilot who initially became famous through her endeavour to set a record for a solo flight from London to Darwin, Australia. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, she set many 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. Early lifeAmy 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 firm of Andrew Johnson, Knudtzon and Company, and Amy Hodge, granddaughter of William Hodge, Mayor of Hull in 1860.[1] Johnson was educated at Boulevard Municipal Secondary School (later Kingston High School) and the University of Sheffield, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.[2] She then worked in London as secretary to a solicitor, William Charles Crocker. She was introduced to flying as a hobby, gaining an aviator's certificate, No.8662,[3] on 28 January 1929, and a pilot's "A" Licence, No. 1979, on 6 July 1929, both at the London Aeroplane Club under the tutelage of Captain Valentine Baker. In that same year, she became the first British woman to obtain a ground engineer's "C" licence.[4] Aviation careerJohnson obtained the funds for her first aircraft from her father, who would always be one of her strongest supporters, and Lord Wakefield.[2] She purchased a second-hand de Havilland DH.60 Gipsy Moth G-AAAH and named it Jason after her father's business trade mark.{{#tag:ref|Her father was a partner in the Andrew Johnson Knudtzon Fish Merchants.|group=Note}} 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, Surrey, on 5 May and landed at Darwin, Northern Territory on 24 May {{convert|11000|mi}}.[5] Six days later she damaged her aircraft while landing downwind at Brisbane airport and flew to Sydney with Captain Frank Follett while her plane was repaired. "Jason" was later flown to Mascot, Sydney, by Captain Lester Brain.[6][7] The aircraft is preserved in the Science Museum, London. She received the Harmon Trophy as well as a CBE in George V's 1930 Birthday Honours in recognition of this achievement, and was also honoured with the No. 1 civil pilot's licence under Australia's 1921 Air Navigation Regulations.[8][9]{{#tag:ref|A de Havilland DH 60G Gipsy Moth G-ABDV, named "Jason III" was given to Johnson on her return to England.[10]|group=Note}} Johnson next obtained de Havilland DH.80 Puss Moth G-AAZV which she named Jason II. In July 1931, she and co-pilot Jack Humphreys became the first to fly from London to Moscow in one day, completing the {{convert|1760|mi}} journey in approximately 21 hours. From there, they continued across Siberia and on to Tokyo, setting a record time for Britain to Japan.[10] In 1932, Johnson married Scottish pilot Jim Mollison, who had proposed to her during a flight together some eight hours after they had first met. In July 1932, Johnson set a solo record for the flight from London to Cape Town, South Africa in Puss Moth G-ACAB, named Desert Cloud, breaking her new husband's record.[10] Her next flights were with Mollison as a duo. In July 1933, they first flew G-ACCV, named "Seafarer," a de Havilland DH.84 Dragon I[10] nonstop from Pendine Sands, South Wales, heading to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York.[11] Their aircraft ran out of fuel and crash-landed at Bridgeport Municipal Airport (now Sikorsky Memorial Airport) in Stratford, Connecticut; both were injured.[12] After recuperating, the pair were feted by New York society and received a ticker tape parade down Wall Street.[4] The Mollisons also flew, in record time, from Britain to India in 1934 in G-ACSP, named "Black Magic", a de Havilland DH.88 Comet as part of the Britain to Australia MacRobertson Air Race. They were forced to retire from the race at Allahabad because of engine trouble.[10] In May 1936, Johnson made her last record-breaking flight, regaining her Britain to South Africa record in G-ADZO, a Percival Gull Six. The same year she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Aero Club.[4] In 1938, Johnson overturned her glider when landing after a display at Walsall Aerodrome in England, but was not seriously hurt.[13] The same year, she divorced Mollison. Soon afterwards, she reverted to her maiden name.[14] Second World WarIn 1940, during the Second World War, Johnson joined the newly formed Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), whose job was to transport Royal Air Force aircraft around the country – and rose to First Officer. Her former husband also flew for the ATA throughout the war.[15] DeathOn 5 January 1941, while flying an Airspeed Oxford for the ATA from Prestwick via Blackpool to RAF Kidlington near Oxford, Johnson went off course in adverse weather conditions. Reportedly out of fuel, she bailed out as her aircraft crashed into the Thames Estuary near Herne Bay. The crew of {{HMS|Haslemere}}{{#tag:ref|Haslemere was a small, former ferry that in Royal Navy wartime service was being used as a barrage balloon ship.|group=Note}} spotted Johnson's parachute coming down and saw her alive in the water, calling for help. Conditions were poor – there was a heavy sea and a strong tide, snow was falling and it was intensely cold.[23] Lt Cmdr Walter Fletcher, the commander of Haslemere, dived into the water in an attempt to rescue Johnson.[23] Fletcher failed in the attempt. As a result of the intense cold he died in hospital days later. In 2016, Alec Gill, a historian, claimed that the son of a crew member stated that Johnson had died because she was sucked into the blades of the ship's propellers; the crewman did not observe this to occur, but believes it is true.[16] This claim has not been verified, as Johnson's body was never recovered. A memorial service was held for Johnson in the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields on 14 January 1941. Walter Fletcher was posthumously awarded the Albert Medal in May 1941.[17] As a member of the ATA with no known grave, she is (under the name Amy V. Johnson) commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede.[18] Disputed circumstancesJohnson had been one of the original subscribers to the share offer for Airspeed.[19] 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 papers and discovered it was Amy. The officers told us never to tell anyone what happened."[20] Honours and tributesDuring her life, Johnson was recognised in many ways. In June 1930, Johnson's flight to Australia was the subject of a contemporary popular song, Amy, Wonderful Amy, composed by Horatio Nicholls and recorded by Harry Bidgood, Jack Hylton, Arthur Lally, Arthur Rosebery and Debroy Somers. She was also the guest of honour at the opening of the first Butlins holiday camp, in Skegness in 1936. From 1935 to 1937, Johnson was the President of the Women's Engineering Society.[21] A collection of Amy Johnson souvenirs and mementos was donated by her father to Sewerby Hall in 1958. The hall now houses a room dedicated to Amy Johnson in its museum. In 1974, Harry Ibbetson's statue of Amy Johnson was unveiled in Prospect Street, Hull where a girls' school was named after her (the school closed in 2004).[22] In 2016 new statues of Johnson were unveiled to commemorate the 75th anniversary of her death. The first, on 17 September, was at Herne Bay, close to the site she was last seen alive,[23] and the second, on 30 September, was unveiled by Maureen Lipman near Hawthorne Avenue, Hull, close to Johnson's childhood home.[24] A blue plaque commemorates Johnson at Vernon Court, Hendon Way, in Childs Hill, London NW2.[25] Buildings named in Johnson's honour include
Other tributes to Johnson include a KLM McDonnell-Douglas MD-11, and after that aircraft was retired, a Norwegian Air UK Boeing 787-9,[27] named in her honour, and "Amy's Restaurant and Bar" at the Hilton hotels at both London Gatwick and Stansted airports are named after her. "Amy Johnson Avenue" is a main road running northwards from Tiger Brennan Drive, Winnellie, to McMillans Rd, Karama, In Darwin, Australia. "Amy Johnson Way" is a road linking commercial premises in Blackpool, Lancashire, UK, adjacent to Blackpool Airport. In 2011 the Royal Aeronautical Society established the annual Amy Johnson Named Lecture[28] to celebrate a century of women in flight{{#tag:ref|In 1911, Hilda Hewlett became the first British woman to earn her pilot's licence.[28]|group=Note}} and to honour Britain's most famous woman aviator. Carolyn McCall, Chief Executive of EasyJet, delivered the Inaugural Lecture on 6 July 2011 at the Society's headquarters in London. 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. Over a six-month period inmates of Hull Prison built a full-size model of the Gipsy Moth aircraft used by Johnson to fly solo from Britain to Australia. In February 2017 this went on public display at Hull Paragon Interchange.[29] In 2017, Google commemorated Johnson's 114th birthday with a Google Doodle.[30] In 2017 the airline Norwegian painted the tail fin of two of its aircraft with a portrait of Johnson. She is one of the company's "British tail fin heroes", joining Queen singer Freddie Mercury, children's author Roald Dahl, England's World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore and aviation entrepreneur Sir Freddie Laker.[31][32] A mural reading QUEEN OF THE AIR (which was a nickname the British press 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.[33] In popular culture{{In popular culture|date=May 2017}}
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Notes1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.hullwebs.co.uk/content/l-20c/people/amy-johnson/amy-johnson.pdf |title=Amy Johnson pioneering aviator |publisher=Hull Local Studies Library, Hull City Council |accessdate=19 February 2013}} 2. ^1 Dunmore, Spencer (2004). "Undaunted: Long-Distance Flyers in the Golden Age of Aviation" Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. {{ISBN|0771029373}}. pp. 194–195. 3. ^{{cite magazine|magazine=Flight|date=25 October 1929|title=The Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom: Official notices to members |page=1141 |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1929/1929-1%20-%201450.html |accessdate=4 October 2018}} 4. ^1 2 Aitken, Kenneth (July 1991). "Amy Johnson (The Speed Seekers)." Aeroplane Monthly, Vol. 19, no. 7, Issue no. 219. p. 440. 5. ^{{cite book|editor=Marshall, A. C. |title=Newnes Golden Treasury|year=1934|publisher=George Newnes Ltd|page=488 (photo plate opposite)|quote=The photograph was taken at Insein, and shows how the plane was damaged in landing.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4LOUPAAACAAJ}} 6. ^{{cite book|title=Captain Lester Brain beside Amy's "Jason"|year=1931|publisher=Ted Hood | quote= information from original catalogue record|url=http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110423419J}} 7. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2304553 |title=MISS AMY JOHNSON |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=4, |issue=813 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=30 May 1930 |accessdate=24 May 2018 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} 8. ^{{London Gazette |issue=33611 |date=30 May 1930 |page=3481 |supp=y}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/treasures/brearley/index.htm |title=Brearley Pilot's Licences|work=Treasures of the Battye Library|publisher= State Library of Western Australia|accessdate=15 July 2007}} 10. ^1 2 3 4 "Amy Johnson." {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120917003512/http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/onlinestuff/stories/amy_johnson.aspx?page=6 |date=17 September 2012 }} The Science Museum (South Kensington. UK), 2013. 11. ^Ignasher, Jim (30 December 2015). "Stratford, CT – July 23, 1933." New England Aviation History. Retrieved: 9 January 2016. 12. ^"Fly ocean, crash near goal." Chicago Daily Tribune, 24 July 1933. Retrieved: 9 January 2016. 13. ^"Helliwells aircraft component factory at Walsall airport." {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928060551/http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/Helliwells-aircraft-component-factory-at-Walsall-airport.htm |date=28 September 2011 }} Black Country Bugle, 25 November 2010. Retrieved: 19 May 2013. 14. ^Smith, Constance Babington (2004). Amy Johnson. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press Ltd. {{ISBN|978-0-75093-703-0}}. pp. 312–313. 15. ^{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/8-unsung-women-explorers-180658286.html |title=8 Unsung Women Explorers.|work=Our Amazing Planet, LiveScience.com|date= 30 April 2012|accessdate= 30 April 2012}} 16. ^[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12085305/Flying-pioneer-Amy-Johnson-chopped-to-pieces-by-Royal-Navy-ships-propeller-historian-says.html "Flying pioneer Amy Johnson 'chopped to pieces by Royal Navy ship's propeller', historian says"], Daily Telegraph, by Sophie Jameson & Patrick Foster, 6 January 2016, retrieved 18 August 2016 17. ^1 2 "Heroes Of Air Raids Civil Defence Awards, Rescues In Face Of Danger." The Times (London), Issue 48928, 17 May 1941, p. 2. Retrieved: 27 December 2012. 18. ^[https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1802112/johnson,-amy-v./ "CWGC Casualty Record: Johnson, Amy V.] Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved: 10 January 2016. 19. ^McKee, Alexander (1982). Great Mysteries of Aviation. New York: Stein & Day. {{ISBN|0-8128-2840-2}}. pp. 139–152, 293. 20. ^Gray, Alison (6 February 1999). "I think I shot down Amy Johnson." The Scotsman. 21. ^"Past Presidents." Women's Engineering Society. Retrieved: 21 November 2010. 22. ^"Amy Johnson." {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315124343/http://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/discover/hull_history_centre/our_collections/hull_people/amyjohnson.aspx |date=15 March 2012 }} Hull History Centre via hullhistorycentre.org.uk. Retrieved: 14 December 2010. 23. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37395430|title=Aviator Amy Johnson: Statue unveiled at Herne Bay|date=17 September 2016|work=BBC News|accessdate=1 October 2016}} 24. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-37510715|title=Amy Johnson statue unveiled in Hull|date=30 September 2016|work=BBC News|accessdate=1 October 2016}} 25. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/johnson-amy-1903-1941|title=Blue Plaque – Johnson, Amy (1903–1941)|accessdate=1 October 2016|publisher=English Heritage}} 26. ^"Amy Johnson Primary School." {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100904122412/http://www.lgfl.net/lgfl/leas/sutton/schools/amy-johnson/homepage/home/ |date=4 September 2010 }} lgfl.net, 2010. Retrieved: 25 December 2010. 27. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/Boeing/787/G-CKHL-Norwegian-Air-UK/qYWxCqxW |title=Norwegian Air UK G-CKHL "Amy Johnson| accessdate= 1 November 2017}} 28. ^1 Bossom, Emma (3 June 2011). "Carolynn McCall to speak at inaugural Amy Johnson Named Lecture." {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723035308/http://www.aerosocietychannel.com/2011/06/women-in-aerospace-newsletter-june11/ |date=23 July 2011 }} Royal Aeronautical Society's Amy Johnson Named Lecture via aerosocietychannel.com. Retrieved: 9 June 2011. 29. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-38916959|title=Full-size model of Amy Johnson's Gipsy Moth on show in Hull|date=9 February 2017|work=BBC News|accessdate=12 February 2017}} 30. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/doodles/amy-johnsons-114th-birthday|title=Amy Johnson’s 114th Birthday|website=Google Doodle|accessdate=1 July 2017}} 31. ^{{cite web|last1=Caswell|first1=Mark|title=Freddie Mercury unveiled as Norwegian’s latest tail fin hero|url=https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2017/07/03/freddie-mercury-unveiled-norwegians-latest-tail-fin-hero/t|website=Business Traveller.com|date=3 July 2017|accessdate=5 July 2017}} 32. ^{{cite web|last1=Munro|first1=Scott|title=Freddie Mercury’s image to appear on Norwegian aircraft|url=http://teamrock.com/news/2017-06-30/freddie-mercurys-image-to-appear-on-norwegian-aircraft|website=Teamrock.com|publisher=Future Publishing Limited|date=30 June 2017|accessdate=5 July 2017}} 33. ^{{cite web|author=Nathalie Raffray |url=https://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/mural-at-cricklewood-train-station-1-5804443 |title=Cricklewood Station graced with mural of UKs first female pilot Amy Johnson from Roe Green Village | Latest Kilburn and Brent News - Brent & Kilburn Times |publisher=Kilburntimes.co.uk |date=29 November 2018 |accessdate=3 December 2018}} 34. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076b6g |title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - Helen Cross - The Typist Who Flew to Australia |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=10 September 2018 |accessdate=3 December 2018}} 35. ^Dyer, Kim (29 January 2016). [https://www.alstewart.com/blog.html "Review of 'Flying Sorcery'."] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413085234/https://www.alstewart.com/blog.html |date=13 April 2016 }} alstewart.com. Retrieved: 27 October 2010. 36. ^"Queen of the Air: Peter Aveyard's tribute to Amy Johnson." {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107124415/http://www.queenoftheair.co.uk/ |date=7 November 2007 }} queenoftheair.co.uk. Retrieved: 24 September 2010. 37. ^National Film and Sound Archive of Australia: Songs about Amy Johnson in "Our Heroes of the Air." The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Retrieved: 1 January 2014. 38. ^"National Film and Sound Archive of Australia: Songs about Amy Johnson; Our Heroes of the Air." {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131153022/http://nfsa.gov.au/sounds-australia-supplement/our-heroes-air/ |date=31 January 2012 }} National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Retrieved: 18 May 2012. 39. ^"Doctor who Magazine #263." doctorwhonews.net, 24 July 2013. Retrieved: 1 January 2014. 40. ^{{cite news|title=The blaggers guide to Worrals of the WAAF|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-blaggers-guide-to-worrals-of-the-waaf-8734889.html|accessdate=15 November 2016|work=The Independent|date=28 July 2013}} References{{Reflist|30em}}Further reading{{Refbegin}}
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