AMY JOHNSON SIGNED RECORD THE STORY OF MY FLIGHT 78 RPM
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Mar 10, 2008
Sold Date
Feb 29, 2008
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£ 30
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Description
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Amy Johnson
To:
GENERALLEIGH@****************
CC:
Debbie.Hardy@eastriding.gov.uk
From:
David.Marchant@eastriding.gov.uk
Date:
Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:43:23 +0000
Dear Mr. Leigh Re your autographed record, it is quite likely to be genuine. Amy would have signed thousands of items at the height of her fame and we have numerous items in our collection at Sewerby Hall which are signed. If you look at our website - www.eastriding.gov.uk/culture/museums/collections/ - you will see several such objects there. Amy had quite a distinctive signature, particularly the initial "a" of Amy, which although lower case was written very large and curvy. Hope that helps. kind regardsAmy Johnson (1 July 1903 – 5 January 1941) C.B.E. was a pioneering British aviatrix. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, Johnson set numerous long-distance records during the 1930s. Johnson flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary where she died during a ferry flight.
Johnson was born in Kingston upon Hull and attended Boulevard Municipal Secondary School (later Kingston High School).[1] She went on from there to the University of Sheffield, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in economics. She then worked in London as secretary to the solicitor William Charles Crocker. She was introduced to flying as a hobby, gaining a pilot's A Licence No. 1979 on 6 July 1929 at the London Aeroplane Club. In that same year, she became the first British woman to gain a ground engineer's C License. [2]
[edit] Aviation career
Her father, always one of her strongest supporters, offered to help her buy an aircraft. With funds from her father and Lord Wakefield she purchased G-AAAH, a second-hand Gipsy Moth she named "Jason," not after the voyager of Greek legend, but after her father's trade mark (he was a partner in the Andrew Johnson Knuditzon Fish Merchants).
Johnson achieved worldwide recognition when, in 1930, she became the first woman to fly solo from Britain, to Australia. She left Croydon, south of London, on 5 May of that year and landed in Darwin, Australia on 24 May after flying 11,000 miles. Her aircraft for this flight, a De Havilland Gipsy Moth (registration G-AAAH) named Jason, can still be seen in the Science Museum in London. She received the Harmon Trophy as well as a CBE in recognition of this achievement, and was also honoured with the No. 1 civil pilot's licence under Australia's 1921 Air Navigation Regulations.[3]
In July 1931, Johnson and her co-pilot Jack Humphreys became the first pilots to fly from London to Moscow in one day, completing the 1,760-mile journey in approximately 21 hours. From there, they continued across Siberia and on to Tokyo, setting a record time for flying from Britain to Japan. The flight was completed in a De Havilland Puss Moth.
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