Six days later she was at Karachi and had broken the record for that flight. In 1930, when she left England in a Gipsy Moth named Jason (left), she was virtually unknown. This was the last great pioneering era of flight and the world made heroes out of those who succeeded.
The record books of the 1930’s filled rapidly with the extraordinary feats of great names in aviation like Amy Johnson and her husband-to-be, Jim Mollison, Bert Hinkler, Beryl Markham, Jean Batten and Amelia Earhart. In 1930 anyone suggesting it would have been regarded as either mad or a very imaginative science fiction writer. Today, we take for granted the experience of sitting in air-conditioned luxury while we fly non-stop from Australia to Europe. This all added to her qualifications as head-turning hero material. She had a total sense of direction in her life which many men found irresistible. She enjoyed men’s company and lived in a man’s world - something rare and defiant in 1930. Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, is perhaps the most famous aviatrix of all.
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