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 ...LIGHT, AUGUST 15, 1930
Large crowds lined the streets and cheered Miss Amy Johnson when she droveon August 6 from her hotel to the Savoy, where a luncheon was given in her
honour. Our picture shows the scenes at Trafalgar Square.
MISS AMY JOHNSON HONOURED
QUITE apart fro...
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 ...LIGHT, AUGUST 8, 1930
TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF AMY JOHNSON : Miss Amy Johnson,
C.B.E., the air heroine of the Empire, speaking through the microphones
soon after her arrival at Croydon Aerodrome last night (August 4). She
arrived some three hours ...
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CONTENTS
Editorial Comment: PAGE
Amy Johnson's Success .. .. .. .. .. .. 575
The Graf Zeppelin 576
London's Air Port . . .. .. . . .. .. .. 576
Miss Amy Johnson's Flight .. .. .. .. .. .. 577
Fokker F. IX. 580
A irships .. . . .. .. ...
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 ...ending action on the
proposed merger of the sponsoring
Aerobatic Club of America and the
EAA's International Aerobatic Club.
Some of the 62 Pitts Specials flown in the US
championships in Texas
Amy Johnson
memorial
scholarship
NEXT year sees the 50th anniversary
of Amy Johnson's record-breaking
flight to Australia. To mark the
anniversary, the Amy Johnson
Memorial Trust will be awardi...
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 ...aims to make its chosen site at Den-
ham something more than just another
flying club; it is to be a complete
country club with swimming pool, tennis
courts, putting greens, and so forth.
Bust of Amy Johnson
A BUST of Amy Johnson—a striking piece of work just completed by Mr.
Siegfried Charoux—was exhibited at a
private pre-view last week at the
Women's Engineering Society in Regent
Stree...
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 ...et an excel-
lent example to other local dignitaries by becoming amember.
The chief event of the afternoon was a race for ladies,rtns was divided into heats with Miss Aitken, Miss Cross-
ley and Miss Amy Johnson in the first, and Miss Burr,
THE OPENING CEREMONY: Lord Northesk making his speech before handing
the key to Col. Shelmerdine, who is on the extreme right.
Miss Gower, Miss Giles, Mrs. You...
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 ...LIGHT, SEPTEMBER 11, 1931
Miss Amy JohnsonMiss
AMY JOHNSON has madea fairly rapid flight home from
Japan in her " Puss Moth." At-previously reported, she originally
left Tokyo on August 24, butowing to bad weather had to
return to...
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 ...Length (including rotors) 28ft 9in
Gross weight 1,2301b
Empty weight 7201b
Cruising speed 100 m.p.h.
Approximate range (no reserve) 250 miles
Service ceiling 14,000ft
Hover ceiling 5,200ft
The Amy Johnson Scholarship
The Amy Johnson Scholarship,
worth £250, is available to help women
private pilots attain the assistant fly
ing instructor's rating. The scholar
ship is awarded by a selec...
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 ... Miss Frances MacRae; 7, David Gaster; 8, Robin Blech;
and 9, Rex Nicholls.
Cape Solo Record Attempt Sheila Scott plans to leave
London Heathrow Airport next Thursday, June 29, in an
attempt to break Amy Johnson's 1936 London-Cape Town
ladies' solo record of 78hr 28min. Amy Johnson flew a Perci-v
al Gull; Miss Scott will use her round-the-world Piper
Comanche 260B "Myth Too," minus all redundant s...
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Flight International, 2 August 1980
Flightcolour No 162: Rescued from a
barn by Ron Souch, de Havilland
O.H.6OG Gipsy Moth G-ABEV sports
the colour scheme worn by Amy
J...
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 ...t of a collection of presentation portraits by "Flight" artists of famous individual aircraft. Next week: combat cockpit 3, Bfioc), and a new air pageant series No. 1 OF A SERIES OF 10 THE IMMORTALS
Amy Johnson's de Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth "Jason"
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England-Australia in 19£ days; May 1930. Preserved in the National Aeronautical Collection,
Science Museum, South Kensington, London SW7. Flig...
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 ...BER 2, 1935
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May 3-24 "Silvered Wings" exhibition tracing the
life and achievements of Amy Johnson.
Victoria Galleries, Hull . . .
. . . and "Aviation Art" display of
paintings by the Guild of Aviation
Artists.
May 4 "Amy Johnson Air Pageant" Paull
Airfield, Nr. Hull, vintage and ...
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 ...AMONGST THOSE PRESENT"
CONTRIBUTING towards the success of Miss Amy Johnson's
flight to Australia are numerous " incidentals." We cannot,
for various reasons, go very fully into this matter, but we
give below some of the principal and necessary helpers.
The Machin...
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 ...LIGHT, AUGUST 1, 1930
MtSS AMY JOHNSON'S HOMECOMING
AS announced in last week's issue, Miss Amy Johnsonis due back in England on August 4, when she isexpected to arrive at Croydon Aerodrome—where
she will be accorded an officia...
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 ...t the dinner, which was attended by many people distin
guished in various spheres of engineering and industrial
administration, and at which the Technical Group of the Forum
Club were guests. Miss Amy Johnson, C.B.E., was in the chair.
Lt. Col. Sir Francis Sheimerdine, CLE., O.B.E., Director
General of Civil Aviation, who was accompanied by Lady
Sheimerdine, proposed a toast to "Women in Avi...
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 ...LIGHT, MAY 9, 1930
A1RISMS FROM THE FOUR WINDS
Miss Amy Johnson's Lone Flight to Australia
Miss AMY JOHNSON, the 22-year old Yorkshire girl,
member of the London Aeroplane Club and only airwoman
holding the Air Ministry Ground Engineer's Licence, set
o...
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 ... a Junkers " Junior " (Armstrong Siddeley
" Genet ") en route for Tokio, has also concluded herflight. She reached Seoul from Mukden early on
August 28, and reached Tokio the following afternoon.Miss Amy Johnson
Miss AMY JOHNSON resumed her homeward flightfrom Japan on August 28, when she flew from Osaka to
Seoul. She reached Seoul some 40 min. after Fraulein vonEtzdorf had left, and so missed mee...
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 ... four Phantom squadrons
are taking part in the exercise.
Originally scheduled for October 1969.
it has been brought forward as part of
NATO's response to the USSR occu
pation of Czechoslavakia.
Amy Johnson Scholarship Winner
The British Women Pilots' Association
has announced that the Amy Johnson
Memorial Scholarship, founded in 1954
in memory of Amy Johnson to provide
professional flyi...
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 ... four Phantom squadrons
are taking part in the exercise.
Originally scheduled for October 1969,
it has been brought forward as part of
NATO's response to the USSR occu
pation of Czechoslavakia.
Amy Johnson Scholarship Winner
The British Women Pilots' Association
has announced that the Amy Johnson
Memorial Scholarship, founded in 1954
in memory of Amy Johnson to provide
professional flyi...
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